Word: sinse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Woman on the Beach (RKO Radio) is sullen-faced Joan Bennett, one of Hollywood's most efficient players of loose women, in an unusual and artful thriller. Along the sand comes a Coast Guardsman (Robert Ryan), still shaky enough from an experience with a torpedo to be excused...
He believes that private schools are threatened by their own "Seven Deadly Sins": snobbishness, bigotry, provincialism, reaction, smugness, stupidity and inertia. "If we do not open our doors to well-qualified applicants, regardless of financial status,* the Government may step in. . . . Exclusiveness, at least in a social sense, cannot persist...
By the time he was an adolescent, the Revolution had shaken the tight social system which Mexico had inherited from Spain, and opened wider horizons to young men. It wrenched power from the cautious hacendados (landed gentry), who seldom took a chance with a peso- except over a gaming table...
"In order to earn my living I became a permanent contributor of articles and illustrations to the Tag and Stunde, the only democratic papers left in town. In 1938 the Nazis came. To my early Berlin sins were added all the anti-Hitler newspaper work I had done in Vienna...
Hope of Salvation? The U.S. airlines had gone through their own postwar hell. Some of the burning was due to their own sins. They had sometimes seemed to run their lines, not like globe-straddling enterprisers, but like cow-pasture barnstormers. They had canceled flights without telling passengers till they...