Word: sinse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Moscow people do not drink coffee as the Petersburg aristocrats and bureaucrats do. Moscow merchants, teachers priests, industrialists drink tea 'until the seventh sweat,' as we say. They drink tea, sweat, dry themselves with a towel and start all over again. A Muscovite has seen a lot, knows...
¶"It does not matter how small the sins are, provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual...
Shoeshine was intended as a furious and moving indictment of a postwar society, and of a world, in which such things could happen. It is all of that, and more. It makes the oversimplified diagnosis and prescription of most social tracts look like so much complacent blueprint. It is filled...
During 40 years in public life Theodore Bilbo had publicly admitted sins which would have shattered a dozen ordinary political careers. He had bragged of being a lecher, and of taking a bribe. He had double-crossed his political allies. When he ended his second term as governor in 1932...
Moments of Greatness. How well had it done? The first Republican Congress in 16 years had done its work in an atmosphere supercharged with politics. With a Democrat in the White House, partisan issues flared up like matches burning in oxygen. The Both had committed its share of sins, and...