Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funny in an amiable, homely way, as if long before the sound-device or Prohibition had ever been heard of a company had somehow made Ten Nights in a Bar-Room with sound and revived it now as a gentle souvenir of the cinema technique as well as the moral problems of old times. Even routine lines seem packed with delicious possibilities...
Pius XI's continual commands for public and private morality and his railing at the modern cinema fertilized the soil for this roguery. The Manhattan flimflammers went into Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland, six States which contain one-half the U. S. Roman Catholic population,* and found priests eager to hear the prospectus of their "National Diversified Corp." The corporation proposed to make "movie and talkie pictures of thoroughly high-class, moral type, such as would appeal to church people." They promised that their major picture, Mary the Virgin, would be reverent in plot, the scenes...
Prosecutor is George Zerdin Medalie, Jewish U. S. Attorney recently appointed to succeed Charles Henry Tuttle, an Episcopalian (TIME, Jan. 19). Mr. Medalie last week flayed the cinema scheme as "one of the boldest racketeering ventures that ever has been pulled at the expense of persons with religious and moral ideals...
...unpleasant to think of him as commander of all Russia's cavalry and, later, of all the Russian armies. For even the dogs are conscious that something unusual, something dark and dreadful is coming to pass-the War, entered into by the Romanovs to gloss over their moral and mental shortcomings. To a dog like Siedoi, excitement is always welcome and off he goes to the front with Fedka. They are taken prisoners and live for a while in Germany. Then back they steal into Russia as heroes and Siedoi becomes more and more the main agent...
...vain attempt to bottle up the Spanish fleet. Spanish sailors caught Captain Hobson. They courteously offered him a swig of liquor. He refused it, took a gulp of coffee. The Spaniards kept him jailed for a month. Then Spanish-American fighting ended. Captain Hobson, 28, "handsome, tall and moral," returned to the U. S. a Hero, some four years be fore a later Hero (Lindbergh) was born. Girls kissed Hero Hobson in cities from one end of the country to the other. Candy makers produced the "Hobson Kiss," a block of chewy confection...