Word: moral
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Italy had no moral right to step across to Africa, as Tripoli had given her no cause for war. But she is politically justified, for she needs room. It is a case of now or never, for France might step in from Tunis and Algeria at any time, were she not occupied elsewhere. Italy, however, is going to encounter difficulties. The city of Tripoli is taken, but not the country. Water is scarce even in the city, camels are absolutely necessary for transportation, and food is in the absolute control of the Turkish rulers of the land...
With a setting that would please Gordon Craig and a rigor and a moral lesson that would have interested as audience of the fourteenth century, the Irish Players last evening acted a "Morality" of one act that peculiarly appealed to persons from Cambridge, that pleased a large audience and perhaps, in some measure, afforded them a lesson. It is called "The Hour Glass," by Mr. Yeats...
...Christmas eve nine years ago the Carmans, Martha and Henry, had put their five-year-old boy to bed and turned to their dinner, when Simon Lirty--half-brother to Henry and one of those monsters of moral weakness and depravity that make such useful levers in starting melodramas--climbed in through a window and stole the child away. He had begged and borrowed until Henry had at last turned him off, and this was to be his revenge for the "desertion." Nine years later, again on Christmas eve, that other useful dramatic slow-match, the new trained nurse, tells...
...death of Dr. R. M. McConnell makes necessary the following changes in the announcement of the Department of Social Ethics: Social Ethics 3hf., Criminology and Penology, will be omitted in 1911-12, and Social Ethics 5hf., The Moral Responsibilities of the Modern State, will be dropped from the list of courses...
...Cronyn's "Dionysos Eleutherios" is stirring verse of high order. The lilt and the changing mood of the poem are admirable. If the reviewer may be permitted to carp, he would add merely that the moral seems a bit forced and that perhaps no specific moral at all would be better than one which seems to suggest a temperance tract...