Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Germany does not dictate all the decrees of Vichy directly. But the peace of France will not be written until warfare ceases, and Vichy commits the pardonable sin of wishing to please the conqueror so that the peace will be gentle. Therefore, some of the sentences of Vichy have had a gutteral German hardness about them. Last week for the first time came words so un-French, so very German in accent that the outside world found it hard to believe they came from the mouth of an old fighter for France, Henri Philippe Pétain...
Harvard's yell-coaxers committed a serious sin against the First Commandment of pious and right-living cheer leaders. The boys simply weren't together. Counterpoint is fine in a Beethoven concerto, and uneven entrance and exit of voices the distinguishing characteristic of a Bach fugue. But the well-ordered cheer is strict harmony; and the cheering section will never be harmonious until the leaders all move the same way at the same time. Individualism has no place in cheer-leading--it has to be done as Hitler would have...
...Manhattan at a "Funds for France" dinner which she sponsored to feed children in Free France, best-dressed, frail Mrs. Harrison ("Mona") Williams was baited by a reporter who implied that to feed France was to help Germany. Said she tearfully: "I have nothing to hide. Is it a sin to be a Christian?" Said Guest Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.: "Mona, it's all so silly-everyone knows you are no more of a Nazi than...
Unwritten conclusions of Gem of the Prairie: 1) though the battle against sin always seems most hopeless at the present, the good old days were far worse; 2) the Capone era in Chicago was less a product of Prohibition than the natural flowering of a great heritage...
Headed by R. Llewelln Brill '42, a reformed toper of note, the Prohibitionists plan to use revival methods to secure converts from gutters and rathskellers and to gather them behind the local Party slogan, "No More Gin: No More Sin...