Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tribes such horrendous offenses may be looking one's mother-in-law in the face, pronouncing a husband's name, milking of cows by a woman. Almost everywhere one of the greatest crimes is incest. Dr. Lévy-Bruhl believes that philosophers looking for some obscure moral or esthetic urge to explain the primitive horror of incest are on the wrong track. Incest frightens the savage because it is abnormal, and the perpetrators are put to death not so much to punish them as to rid the community of vulnerable points through which evil forces may break...
Life in Newport, Saratoga, New York, Paris, was a round of extreme, extravagant, vulgar display, lit occasionally with sulphurous scandals, with conflicts that ended in tragedy or madness. The John Drexels had 26 carriages. Mrs. Drexel had ropes of pearls made into a Sam Brown belt. Moral standards were confused. Once James Van Alen picked up a local charmer and brought her home with him, outraged Newport ladies who broke their engagements for lunch. Mr. Van Alen's strict daughter refused to make the girl welcome, but agreed to lunch with...
...Government, the petition urged the Administration to inquire into the "facilities for divine worship" available to U. S. citizens in Mexico. With the petition was presented a memorial stating that the signers were unalterably opposed to any semblance of interference in Mexico but urging the President to undertake "the moral vindication of an ethical principle." Reaching out a large hand, Franklin Roosevelt drew a pad of paper toward him, flicked out his fountain pen and, like a true statesman, straightway declared himself. A few minutes later his "moral vindication of an ethical principle" was in the hands of the Press...
...Russian nobleman, makes diffident love to a visiting U. S. heiress (Loretta Young) among the bars and drawing rooms of Shanghai's European colony. Assiduous cinemaddicts, who have seen it emphasized in 75% of all previous geographic problem plays, should experience small difficulty in assimilating the moral of the picture, implicit in the scene in which Dmitri and his heiress decide to part forever: East is East and West is West. This scrap of traveler's lore is hardly made to seem more stimulating or original by the events leading up to the renunciation scene, in which Dmitri...
...follows: "Will H. Hays, Adolph Zukor, Gabriel Hess, Charles C. Pettijohn and numbers of other individuals and film-producers have been indicted in the Province of Ontario for conspiring to prevent competition in that portion of Canada. This is a criminal prosecution, the results of which can only be moral, as the gentlemen are not likely to place themselves within reach of provincial prisons...