Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressed upon him, and decided to go out on the town to see if he could find a chicken or two to go stepping with. If life begins at 40, said the gay old bird, why not at 41. So down he came, into the city of sin he had watched over for so long, to get a closer view...
...dateless, there is Scollay Square -- sexy, sin and satisfying. Rosita Royce and her trained doves do soul-stirring number at the Old Howard Atheneum, while Philadelphia's own Billy eese 'n' Crackers" Hagen atributes his bit of wit to evening...
Goldolphin has been known to ride seniors around Nassau Hall in a rickshaw, and his famous grin prompted a song rhyming "grin" and "sin" with the sentiment that it was from the latter that he got his income. At the end of the ceremonies, all the seniors break their pipes on the cannon. The sundial is another place reserved for seniors, with steps on which only members of the graduating class...
There is perhaps no comic strip that has so rapidly won its way into the hearts of the American people and into the pages of their newspapers as Pogo. The puny possum and his partner sin mirth poke fun at every subject from atom bombs to truant officers with corn and candor...
...Battlefield, England Made Me, This Gun for Hire), and getting more popular. But the critics didn't take him seriously. He was too readable; whether he called them "entertainments" or not, his stories were read for sheer pleasure by people who ignored his terrifying glimpses of sin and despair. Even the chilling study of pure evil in Brighton Rock (1938) was written off by one English reviewer as "so much guff." Nevertheless, Brighton Rock was a turning point for Greene. He had discovered that "a Catholic is more capable of evil than anyone...