Word: sin
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Perhaps those who are revising the Bible could get rid of the word sin and still retain the "flavor" of the King James. The Scriptures would be more universally palatable without reference to sin...
...quibble on what actually constitutes a luxury (Voltaire holding that it is anything above a necessity), or a rare defense: "Give us the luxuries of life and we will dispense with its necessities" (John Lothrop Motley). Still, history's high livers have been accused of every imaginable sin: active, cardinal, political, cosmic, original...
Singapore Sue: "A lotus blossom girl in that notorious den of drugs, gambling and...Yes, Madame Sin-Sin. Aided by her lascivious henchman Dung Wong, Madame Sin-Sin nightly lures unwary bluejackets to their untimely doom." --"Dames at Sea," Hasty Pudding Theatricals...
...Warner Brother's "The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu" featured stereotypic, sinister and subhuman Asian males (played by white actors) who lust after white women. Last month, Hasty Pudding offered us the female counterparts: Singapore Sue (so sweet and soft and gentle, my favorite Oriental) and Madame Sin-Sin, who together seduce and destroy Caucasian sailors...
...glowing scene. Recognizing that a pretend-affair requires some corroborative evidence, Carrie asks Oliver what she is to tell Peter about how it all began. The pair decides that a cozy lunch in one of Manhattan's Upper East Side French restaurants provides the right backdrop for incipient sin...