Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alert owners of Chesapeake & Ohio-Nickel Plate. Luncheon was served them in their chairs. Nine hours later they arose together after concluding an agreement so momentous they did not trust themselves to announce it to the public. Because President Hoover had pressed them into this conference, because he was moral sponsor for their negotiations, and because his word might commit the Interstate Commerce Commission they let him reveal the results of their efforts...
...hail of lead have not been canceled from my mind. I myself was seriously wounded. In the years that have since elapsed and at the present time, both as man and as head of the government, I have had before me a panorama of political, economic and moral consequences of the War, and not in Italy alone...
...acquitted 20 years prior for murdering a man who tried to abandon her. As managing editor, it is the task of terse, authoritative Arthur Byron (The Criminal Code; One, Two, Three!) to have Nancy Voorhees sought out, to find what has happened to her. to point an unctuous moral for his readers. It so happens that news of the story breaks on the day that Nancy's pretty but illegitimate daughter is to be married. Griefstricken, Nancy and the worthy man who has married her despite her shame, commit suicide...
...also through his poetry that Russell became connected with the Irish Agricultural Society in which he was an active worker. He admits that he has never actually been a farmer, but is merely a philosopher on the subject. His ideas are based on esthetics and moral principles, rather on tables of statistics...
...SALOON IN THE HOME-Ridgely Hunt & George S. Chappell-Coward-McCann ($2).* Compilers Hunt & Chappell put up a blatant front of impartiality on the Wet & Dry question. At the top of every page they reprint some moral tale or verse from some such temperance sourcebook as No Gin Today, Anecdotes from the Platform, Temperance Annual; then counter at the bottom with recipes for drinks. The scheme, more ingenious than its execution, is helped somewhat by pseudo-Victorian pseudo-engravings by Artist John Held Jr. Like all rummagings in the attic, this one recovers some rare antiques; the full version...