Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bishop Auxiliary John J. Dunn of New York and Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley of Baltimore promptly replied for Catholicism to the Protestants' report. Archbishop Curley called it a "confession of moral bankruptcy." Bishop Dunn quoted His Holiness, Pope Pius XI: "Since, therefore, the conjugal act is destined primarily by nature for the begetting of children, those who in exercising it deliberately frustrate its natural power and purpose, sin against nature and commit a deed which is shameful and in- trinsically vicious. . . . No reason, however grave, may be put forward by which anything against nature may become conformable to nature...
...edged bibliophiles' gilt-edged quarterly) Theodore Dreiser revealed what he believes happened to the first edition of his first novel, Sister Carrie: In 1900 Frank Norris, then reader for Doubleday, Page & Co., persuaded his employers to sign a contract for its publication. Mrs, Frank Doubleday, social worker and moral reformer, read the MS. with a horror that persuaded her husband to "throw the books in the cellar" before putting them on sale. Norris quickly mailed out 100 review copies, the only U. S.-printed volumes of the book in circulation for the next seven years...
...Southerners, the Vaidens believed in States' rights; as Alabamians, they believed in individual determinism on all legal and moral questions; as Primitive Baptists, they believed they were supernaturally foreordained from before the laying of the foundations of the earth to do as they damned pleased on all questions whatsoever?social, moral, legal, and re- ligious." Slave-owners but not lords of a manor, the Vaidens lived simply but thought of themselves as aristocrats...
...contrast to the Mahatma's moral winnings the Viceroy won substantial prizes...
Behind him in the noisome city where his word is law and his wink worth $50.000, a tumult has broken forth and moral prelates and amoral Republicans are piling advice on vice. The Tammany Tiger is trying to purr like a pussy cat but it seems to have an impolitic foog in its throat which gives it the sound of an angry beast caught at another's carrion. And from what one hears the stench will last long after the scandalous corpse has been cleared from the city streets...