Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contemporary partisans who did not hesitate to employ torture and forgery to establish her guilt or innocence. To the confusions bred by religious antagonisms, Scottish and English national rivalries added more contradictions, until the personality of Mary Stuart was obscured, even in her own day, in a haze of moral, religious and political disputes...
...years the District of Columbia has permitted divorce for adultery only. Lately Congress passed a new law adding as grounds for divorce desertion for two years, voluntary separation for five years, a prison sentence of two or more years for a crime involving moral turpitude. President Roosevelt, whose ideas on divorce are liberal, signed the bill one afternoon last week...
...raving lunatic. His relations with women, his financial dealings, were truly abominable, but he had been brought up in a harsh school, and the sudden release to such license as the age permitted would have strained better-balanced characters than his. Taking a broad view of the mental and moral infirmities that outraged the Victorians, Authors Sitwell and Barton discover that George possessed one distinction to which Thackeray attached little importance. He was one of the few English kings who was also a patron of the arts. Gay and entertaining, with considerable taste in painting and architecture, he was principally...
...calling Sir Herbert's suggestion "most interesting" and promising to transmit it to Geneva, Sir Samuel added, with what seemed to Italians mealy-mouthed British hypocrisy: "We are dealing with the question as realists, but not as cynical realists, rather as sympathetic realists who know that if great moral issues are treated rashly and clumsily we may, with the best intentions, with the most honorable motives, plunge the world into a great catastrophe...
...life had played a spirited-and unsuccessful-part in the greatest historic event of modern times. Hermann Hagedorn, in a friendly and somewhat romantic biography of Thompson, succeeds in showing how the abrupt widening of Western financial and intellectual horizons created confusions unlimited, bred political and moral dilemmas that robbed Thompson's triumph of all personal satisfaction...