Word: sinse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maurice Chevalier can still romp through the part of the French lover. His hair is getting thin, and he doesn't show too well in closeups, but these are minor objections. His enthusiasm for this familiar role seems undiminished, his girls are as beautiful as ever, and My Seven Little...
The girls referred to, the "seven little sins," are seven actresses who, stranded in a small town, try to get railroad fare home by posing as the Count's illegitimate daughters. Most appealing of these seven is Luisella (Delia Scala), whose angelic face and noble motives are intended to fool...
In Milan's weekly Epoca, Jesuit Theologian Armando Guidetti explored related subjects. On reverse gluttony: "The person who to keep a slim figure damages her health by eating too little is guilty of mortal sin." On competitive gluttony: "It is a sin to take part in a competition where...
Wrote Dr. Fisher in the monthly Canterbury Diocesan Notes: "Sin is an offence against God. Its measurements do not vary from age to age as man's laws do ... So then, whatever from time to time the criminal law may say, homosexual offences are sins; the life of a...
Maxim us or Optimus? In pages as crowded but unhurried as a Bruegel canvas, Historian Durant shows the life and customs, major sins and minor pastimes of his period, stopping along the way to sketch in a thousand odd facts and arresting faces. The volume ranges over the whole of...