Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consecrate our professional knowledge and skill to the advancement of human welfare, safety and progress...
...repetitious, childlike pomposity of this "edict" is not quite an accurate index of Wizard Evans' mental calibre, for with the edict went a rider. Wizard Evans, who gained his knowledge of human nature as a dentist, had invented the "Knights of the Forest" as a painless method of extracting $1 from each & every Klansman. Salaries had to be paid, and it would have been unwise to levy an unembellished assessment. The "Knights of the Forest," therefore, constituted an obligatory degree palliated by the following ritual...
Sometimes human beings do things that are too much for even the most indurate newsgatherers of the daily press to contemplate without shuddering. But newsgatherers must tell all. The more terrible the scene, the faster news of it will travel, if not by direct word then by dark references, glances over shoulders, ominous silences. It is a newsgatherer's duty to make his report before hints and half-facts have gained currency, letting his editor decide whether the report should ever be made public...
...true stories" and "confessions" were told by their employers to "lay off the sex stuff." This applied chiefly to seductions and attempted seductions. A cleaner substitute was wanted, partly because of fear of censorship, but essentially because public taste was changing. Heart throbs, steadfast virtue, outdoor heroes, wholesome homes, human interest stories were selling like hotdogs at a horse race. They became the order...
...March 1928 True Story, just out, is comparatively clean with such human interest stories as: "Thirty Days to Live," "His Last Moment of Glory," "Wings of Love" (aviators), "The Salvation of a Bank Burglar." It has only four faintly off-color confessions. But the March True Experiences could almost be read at a Sunday school picnic. It has a wholesome girl on the cover, properly clad in a red dress with white collar; an editorial by Mr. Macfadden entitled "Broaden Your Outlook." Among the confessions are "The Girl of the Golden Heart," "MatchMaking Mothers," "When Loyalty Calls." Attempted seductions: three...