Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fish . . . I acknowledge my sin in it. And for their mackeral, brought to them with their guts in them, and goat's dung in their hasty pudding, it's utterly unknown to me, but I am much ashamed it should be in the family . . . and I humbly acknowledge my negligence...
...Long or Gray Goose III could stand up for 90 miles (three 30-mile heats over a two-and-a-half-mile oval) was the question among the 100,000 spectators who lined the Gold Cup course last week. Among the experts, the favorites were Zalmon Simmons' My Sin, winner last year with an average speed of 66 m.p.h., and Herbert Mendelson's brand-new Notre Dame, successor to the original Notre Dame that won the 1937 race. Sentimentalists hoped that Gar Wood Jr., driving his little Tinker Toy (a converted 18-ft. runabout with which...
...both sentimentalists and experts were disappointed. Not one of the six starters completed the 90 miles. My Sin, Notre Dame and Tinker Toy broke down in the first heat. In the second heat, Notre Dame was unfit to start, Tinker Toy dropped out in the first lap, My Sin in the third. In the last 30 miles, Notre Dame finally got going, roared around at 66 m.p.h.-but it was too late. The cup went to the winner of the first two heats, Sidney Allen's Hotsy Totsy...
...bathroom door to answer questions opportunely ; yet a pervasive presence in Mrs. Mini ver's life, like the sun. "Clem caught her eye across the table. It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch...
Next day the platform crept out, as forthright against sin as all platforms, and after New York's Senator Robert A. Wagner had read the whole document through, the delegates knuckled down to their task. Taking no chances whatever, Hopkins & Co. had commandeered Senator Lister Hill of Alabama to nominate Franklin Roosevelt for Term III. Balding, melodramatic Senator Hill laid his ears back and bayed in a manner so floridly reminiscent of Civil War Days that editorials in Southern newspapers blushed for Southern shame for days afterward...