Word: moral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Christ's teachings, in their pure essence or applied as "practical" Christianity, were still above and beyond the moral sense, or senselessness, of the world...
...Moral Rearmament" became the 1938 slogan of Dr. Frank Buchman's Oxford Groups, who worked betimes for a religious revival, and betimes announced that it had already happened. A revival of sorts likewise continued outside the churches, in the cults of California, in the "Heavens" of Father Divine...
...John Alexander Mackay of Princeton Theological Seminary. Critical of present-day church life ("smug and complacent"), the report said: "The churches as we know them are at a great disadvantage in the new spiritual conflict that begins to loom before us. . . ." Of current preaching: "Multitudes who are aware of moral weakness and realize their sinful enmeshment in situations they cannot change are being goaded to despair by moralistic sermons...
...precursor to Here Come the Clowns. Two contradictory kinds of talent are apt to keep Barry from ever becoming a cut-to-measure playwright : on the one hand, a keen eye for manners, a suave wit, a gift for fresh, pointed dialogue; on the other, a restless imagination, great moral heat, a feeling for below-the-surface tragedy...
Some other unusual subjects of pieces which Miss Tisdale has run across include "The Mariners' Family Industrial Society"; "The New England Moral Reform Society"; "The Society for the Relief of Indigent Old Men"; and "The Society for the Diffusion of Christian and General Knowledge among the Chinese...