Word: moral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were given their U. S. citizenship. The bureau started proceedings (aided by affidavits of long-memoried U. S. Army officers who were still bitter over the incident at Posolskaya). Result: Bogomoletz' and Anna's citizenship was revoked, and he was arrested for deportation on a charge of moral turpitude...
...have no reason for giving the world this picture of the moral decadence of the clergy, and would rather regulate this matter among ourselves. Reasonable men, like Cardinal Innitzer-although I would not even trust him out of sight-will, under pressure of established circumstances, find themselves compelled to submit, more and more, to National-Socialist leadership...
...Austin wrote a letter to the London Times pleading with the world's youth who 'are bound together by a common love of physical fitness and in a spirit of sportsmanship engendered by their love of games ... to let their voice be heard in a call for moral rearmament . . . under the guidance of. God, who is the Father...
...chapters. The story had reached its climax; the characters were at a moment in their careers when they were compelled to make irrevocable decisions. While Mrs. Wharton left notes suggesting how she intended to end the novel, she gave no hint of how she intended to solve its moral and esthetic problems. Last week her literary executor, Gaillard Lapsley,* offered The Buccaneers as a novel complete as far as it went, but with its conclusion a puzzle which readers might work out themselves. Because it contains two first-rate characterizations, some sharp social satire and a tantalizing dilemma...
...also his half brother) is shot for imputed rape. Posey shoots the white man, who is the narrator's oldest brother. As another result of Posey's following his own rather than the Buchan social codes, his wife is driven crazy. Yet the narrator withholds moral judgment; the tragedy, he concludes, is one in which Fate pulls the strings...