Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deserted her on & off, and left her for good in 1937. In one of the intervals when he was off, she had given birth to Gerald by a man now dead. She decided that no one must ever know. She went regularly to confession, but never told her biggest sin...
...rate, anyone who is guilty of such specific heinousness as being "a generally shifty guy," "wearing a letter which he had not earned" (a Cardinal Sin!)," "'bossing' meetings" (in Education 4, no less), and who has had "innumerable instances of petty dishonesty attributed to him," certainly is deserving of capital punishment...
...People Not Without Sin." Ivanov tried to explain his downfall by his father's sins. "He was a small bourgeois," explained Ivanov, "a member of the Democratic Party. He left his mark...
Laid in California, the play tells of an aging Italian winegrower who woos a young waitress by mail, wins her by submitting his youthful foreman's photograph in place of his own. Though resentful of being tricked, she goes through with the marriage, only to sin with the foreman. The husband finds out, but reason prevails over melodrama because all three know what they really want-the Italian a wife, the girl a good home, the foreman his freedom...
...made a responsible agent in an adult affair. A third, Brother, examines the troubles of a man who acts according to his principles, does his duty as a citizen, and gets another man killed. A fourth, A Chance for Mr. Lever, stacks everything in favor of the choice of sin by a middling good little man and notes his exhilaration after making it. A fifth, written last year, is called The Hint of an Explanation and deals briefly with the same theological theme as The Heart of the Matter. Besides these, there is a fragment of a novel written...