Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most elaborate in the city since the notorious parlor of Mme. Restell, almost 100 years ago. A florid midwife bedecked with velvet and plumes, Mme. Restell amassed a fortune from abortions. She used to kiss her young clients good-by with the words: "Go, and sin no more." In 1878 she was finally hunted down by Reformer Anthony Comstock, committed suicide in her bathtub...
Incitement to Sin? The U.S. taxpayer is willing to swallow a camel-size defense tax, but a gnat-size affront will still make him gag. Such a gnat was the rule requiring husbands & wives to file joint returns, in the proposed 1941 tax bill. The House Ways and Means Committee hoped thereby to raise $323,000,000 in extra revenue. But a wave of public resentment against compulsory joint returns has swept down on the House. To many a defender of women's rights, the rule looks like a devilish device to sell married women down the river into...
...divorce, celibacy, a lower birth rate and a mercenary attitude toward the estate of marriage." Wrote 76-year-old Arthur Graham Glasgow, noted gas technologist, in a letter to the New York Times: "Such discrimination is immoral as well as unmoral, for it allots a premium ... to living in sin...
...Sin, But Self-Faith
...have had the privilege of Felix Frankfurter's friendship for 30 years, and I have never found him touched by the conceit you say characterizes him. Not that that is a sin; it is usually a mark of self-faith. Besides, if your charge were true, how would it affect his usefulness on the Supreme Bench, of which, you admit, he is its deepest scholar ? ... HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE