Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earlier novels, but if they are real Priestley enthusiasts they will like it. Others may consider that Author Priestley has hit an easy mark and is jumping on a man of straw when he is down. Everybody will recognize Wonder Hero as both an entertaining and a moral tale. Charlie Habble was a perfectly ordinary young Midlander except for two things: he had no girl and he had a job. His job was on the night shift of a chemical plant: he had to keep awake, watch gauges, see that no fire started. One night, after one too many drinks...
...Roosevelt has none of Theodore's magnificent quixotry, none of his passion for fighting brilliantly in the name of a lost cause. The lost causes of Theodore Roosevelt have never seemed quite like the lost causes of anyone else. In the very early Albany era, his politics was mere moral indignation, but he vented it so resoundingly as to rid New York of a few petty pillagers of the till and to sweep himself into the governor's chair. During the war days, when he was one moment writing articles and the next going off to sulk because Mr. Root...
...Corporation is as yet undecided as to what will be done with the yellow frame house in which George H. Palmer '64, Alford Professor of Moral Philosophy resided during his last years. Situated in the south-east corner of the Yard, it has been vacant since the family of the late professor moved during the summer months...
There is no need to go on. This is the making of a crusader. But when the Vagabond had finished it he was reconciled to the fate of "Munsey's" and willing to confess that the moral which once accompanied every lurid fable had slipped his memory. So, conscious of the error of his ways, he abandons his golden dream, his plans for the future of the Harvard Critic, and return to "Fanny Hill," the only safe resort of those in search of literary excitement...
...doing; and by co-operation with Him and the Principle advocated by Him I have been able to witness the duplication in some measure of His wonderful works in the form of apparently miraculous healing of all manner of physical disease as well as the more remarkable moral and spiritual reformation and regeneration in the hearts and minds and bodies and lives of those who have received the Message in this part of the country...