Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have gone into one appendage of the League or whether we have gone into the League-once we are in, we are in. ... And when we are in, then, of course, all the internationalists of this land will tell of the necessity that exists for us to perform our moral obligations and, if necessary, become a part of the intrigue, the controversies, the broils and . . . ultimately the wars on the other side of the ocean...
...Academy, read the message, called off the names of other famed cripples-,Æsop. Richard III, Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott-and pointed to one-legged Dramatist Laurence Stallings who was at the speakers' table of the banquet. From their successes Dr. Wilson drew a moral: "The orthopedic surgeons have the duty not only of relieving the patient of physical deformity, but of watching over his mental training during the long periods of hospitalization. The cripple must be made to understand that while his disability can be greatly relieved, he will always carry some slight defect...
...roused by the latest ban placed upon Sean O'Casey's play by the Mayor of Boston in the role of dramatic critic. This censorship is not particularly important in itself. Only as it reflects the movement that is prevalent in some parts of the country to impose certain moral standards upon plays, movies, and books, does it merit any wrathful outburst...
...definitely a sign of weakness on the part of church organizations and other reform groups when they resort to censorship. It is a confession of their own inability to instill in persons certain moral ideas that they think are right. The only test for the truthfulness of ideas can only be made when all ideas have the same opportunity for expression and when a choice between alternatives is afforded...
Questions of right and wrong will be debated forever and standards will change endlessly. No moral standard, however, will ever be made right by the use of might. Let the guardians of our morals persuade us of their rightness and put aside the cudgel of intolerance that is resented by intelligent...