Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Few countries envy our moral reputation. Granted it is unjust but who is to blame? Out here the cinema is the popular entertainment for the evening. Most of them show American pictures. Pictures that we Americans see and soon forget. Pictures from which our foreign friends form their conception of the average American life. The ordinary picture fan out here sees our fair America-not once, but some fifty or sixty times each year-as a place where every seventh door is a speakeasy, where racketeers and gangsters clean the streets of all humanity every day, where all stock...
...fresh charges of "hypocritical and unwarranted interference with American business" (Scripps-Howard). Also it was obvious that unrecognized Russia must construe the act as an unfriendly one. Nevertheless, Mr. Stimson took these risks. From the historical viewpoint the episode seemed to amount to this: in order to further the moral aim of the Pact of Paris, the Secretary of State decided as the Pact would dictate...
...Fascist regime, we a democracy!", Il Duce bridled, made an answer of utmost significance : "I am a democrat [pause] that is, an authoritarian democrat."* As though he found his new-coined phrase especially apt, Il Duce reintroduced it during the argument again and again. "We are creating moral order, not police order," he added earnestly. "We are not reactionaries: quite the contrary." A little plaintively, knowing well that he will always be considered ruthless, the Dictator spoke at last of his penal islands (notorious as "Devil's Isles" but recently shown by a neutral investigator to be much...
...June 16 et ante). Last fortnight Bishop Cannon confounded the Senate Lobby Committee, which sought to learn about his handling of political campaign funds, by challenging its legal authority, marching out of the hearing. Both victories were parliamentary cleverness. But last week Bishop Cannon suffered a reverse on his moral front. The Senate committee returned to the subject of his embarrassment at Dallas and published a subpoenaed correspondence between Bishop Cannon and his "broker," Harry Goldhurst, now serving five years in Atlanta Penitentiary for using the mails to defraud "purchasers" of stock he never bought for them...
...would represent the hyperbole to us as a living being and a tragic one. I believe in the tragedy (in the romance) of the binomial theorem (I am not so sure that Newton saw it)." The novels (short stories) in this book are not exemplary in the conventional moral sense, but examples of tragic human characters, tragic situations. The two daughters of a grim old grandee fall in love with the same man; he seduces the older before he marries the younger, and his two children grow up to fill his house with hate. Don Juan, lover of the childless...