Word: moral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...climate, landscape and cowboys, Author Priestley less resembles a coyote than an oldtime prophet. The prophet's rhapsodies change to a jeremiad when he tackles U. S. women, Manhattan, Hollywood, the stricken man-made landscape between, the profligate waste of natural resources, the "chilly dank hell" of moral decay rising from U. S. indifference to its gangsters, its rich men and their political ineptitudes...
...have seared the very soul of men and women. At a time when our country is inclined to develop class, race or creed consciousness or hatreds the menace of a common enemy and the inspiration of fighting it together may have a sorely needed and deeply significant religious and moral force. Research, diagnosis and treatment will all reflect the increased interest and activity...
...their beauty with the result that the spirit of the times is once more captured and the reader can more easily understand the forces at work to create such a reign of terror. The hatred and intolerance of the straight-laced but hypocritical Puritans with their cast iron moral codes and their frigid attitude is set in striking contrast with the loyalty, the courage, and the affection of their brothers. The narrowness and prejudice of the Puritan mind is shown in a psychological light which reflects also on the more human members of the Salem colony...
...years Mrs. O'Connor was a tower of moral strength in the San Francisco Police Department. Part of her job was to keep her door open to the less criminal among the city's unfortunates, listen to their stories, advise them. Last month she reached the Department's retiring age, 63, and found that the law made no provision for pensioning a policewoman. The Chronicle thereupon invited her to become its Director of Social Service, privately interview and assist readers with troubles more grave than the heart, publicly comment on their letters in a daily column...
Acidly observed SEC last week: "The Commission of course . . . does not attempt to evaluate the significance of these interests ... or the fact that although many of such special agents . . . were the issuing bankers for the bonds in question, and despite their professed recognition of a moral obligation to attempt to obtain for the bondholders the best that was possible under the circumstances, they nevertheless sought and obtained better treatment of their claims than those of bondholders who may have looked to such issue houses for protection...