Word: moral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Stevenson lived "under the austere reign" of Queen Victoria, "and while her reign was irksome to those who were immorally inclined, she did . . . place her moral stamp upon the English-speaking world" (TIME, Nov. 2). And she did place her moral stamp of approval on the cruel and unnecessary Boer...
...public declaration of what he intended to do with his great political triumph. Measured in the percentage of the voting public whom he had won to his support, his triumph was as great as that of Gamaliel Harding in 1920. Measured in electoral votes, it was overwhelming. Measured in moral effect it was greatest of all. For a time at least the terrific impact of his victory had knocked the wind out of all opposition. Alf Landon's personal friend William Allen White publicly proclaimed: "It was not an election which the country has just undergone but a political...
...bottom of the class," Gilbert Chesterton dreamed through his pleasant schooling at St. Paul's, producing "on most of the masters and many of the boys ... a pretty well-founded conviction that I was asleep." He went to art school, suffered a period of religious despair and moral confusion before he emerged as a Catholic, an optimist, a poet, a radical, an art critic, and lecturer with a reputation as one of the wittiest men of his time...
...courtesy title at the present time. It cannot be over-emphasized that such under-representation of so large a minority is extremely unhealthy. One need not turn to Europe for illustration; the excesses of the G.O.P. after the Civil War, the worst mistakes of the present administration, frame the moral in sufficiently lurid colors...
...Jack Oakle is the picaresque here who gets a bullet in the stomach, fighting the good fight. The man who put it there is that irredeemable villain Lloyd Nolan, but he gets his from Fred. It's a strong picture, and lest anyone should miss the point, the moral is aptly drawn...