Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Irish Senators debated whether to put colleens below the age of consent into "distinctive dresses", Scotch solons of Glasgow's Diocesan Council were apprised of "terrible moral conditions in Scotland" by their rapporteur on vital statistics, Major A. R. Haverfield...
...stool to play a tune called "Dance of London" which she had composed that morning. Then up she jumped, threw a kiss toward the ceiling, cried: "I'm in a different world when you people are not here. I go upstairs and read Spinoza's Moral Ethics. There is a book! I also read Aristotle but he is too much like this Franklin Roosevelt. . . . Do you know Goethe? Do you know Spinoza? Can you speak German? Bah! None of you is educated...
...followed Mr. Warburg's advice, we can readily imagine the storm of abuse which would have poured in upon him. Indeed, the great political problem of the central bank board will be to find men who will serve for the sake of a moral reward fearlessly when men shall revile them and persecute them, and say all manner of evil against them; to find men who will, like our mothers, beat us because they love...
...condemn, as strongly as my Christian fellow citizens, those Jewish motion picture producers who are responsible for vulgarization of public taste and lowering moral standards...
...Here the producers were faced with one of many moral problems. According to Shostakovich's directions, the cook should be plopped into the barrel rump up. Clevelanders decided it would be wiser to exhibit her head. The Philadelphia Orchestra, which will give Lady Macbeth in March, considered an English translation but finally despaired of finding any that would pass even the most liberal censorship...