Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concession to the popular flair for denouncing everything puritanical. A reformer is represented as the fanatical persecutor of his lovely wife and daughter, both 100% virtuous by nature. The reformer, nasty-minded, looks upon lawn tennis as vice. Eventually he is made to see that the source of all evil is restraint and the source of all sweetness and light is in the freedom denied by reformers. Out of such unwholesome moralizing by Rex Beach, Director Dwan, with an excellent cast, makes as good a picture as could be expected...
...Doom's Day apostle of righteousness likewise entertained the soldiers, during the War, with his wrathful denunciations of the Y. M. C. A. for abetting the evil practice of cigarette smoking. Dr. Norris, incorrigible, escorted Chipps to the door...
...redoubtable Governors Ferguson (see p. 9) of Texas have solved the knotty problem of man's origin. They perceived that while "evolution" has become anathema among good Baptists, the same flower of evil, though by another name, would smell but half as poisonous. So by administrative fiat it was decreed, and last week Manhattan publishers admitted, that biology textbooks, intended for use among God-fearing Texans, should refer to mankind's "development" and other phases of the ape-to-man theory should be toned down, by deletion or other euphemisms. Thus, 28 pages of a biology text...
...Road to Mandalay (Lon Chaney). Good old-fashioned explosives cannot be downed. If you take an evil man and bring him upon his daughter on the point of going bad herself there is bound to be drama. Set this story in a Singapore dive, with yellow and brown wickedness all around and the atmosphere is perfect. Particularly when Lon Chaney plays the bad man with an unsightly cataract on one eye. You may not believe but you cannot resist...
...keep growing in his garden." U. S. Commissioner of Education John J. Tigert discussed the drawbacks of democracy: "It is quite clear that democracy which has breathed so much vitality into the schools of the present generation, may be carried to the point where it will become an evil which can be equaled only by the good it has accomplished. ... It is a serious question in the minds of thoughtful men. . . ." And so it went, speech after speech-Commissioner Augustus O. Thomas of Maine urging that school children be made "internationally minded"; Dr. William Healy, director of the Judge Baker...