Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are a few men of the West of my generation who did not know the pioneer woman in his own mother. . . . It was those women who carried the refinement, the moral character and spiritual force into the West." So over the radio spoke President Hoover for the unveiling of a large statue of the Pioneer Woman of the West at Ponca City, Okla...
...down on the job and follows the mob along the lines of least resistance, our form of government is doomed. . . . We have reached a critical stage, if not a real crisis, in our history. . . . Do you have any idea that the Supreme Court as now constituted would have the moral courage to go into this question...
...greater part of this furor deserves a quick exit with no curtain calls. There is, however, a question of morals which is outside of all legality and upon which the most recent champions of the Scrubwomen stand. In Pome short moment when the crusading ardor is not all-powerful, "The Harvard Square Deal Association" might be reminded that any question of morality inevitably means a moral issue, not an absolute moral truth...
...Theater must necessarily be limited by the facts that the theater was pleasantly darkened and the waking hours of the reviewer few. It is difficult to determine the exact relation of Vina Delmar, authoress of "Bad Girl" with the plot of this production. Surely there is nothing so dowdily moral as the morality of a cheap Dance Hall as portrayed upon the screen. Yet, the fact remains that the sociologist who may go to gain information on the correct dance gestures and colloquial idiom of the truly jazzy will probably have difficulty in finding a vacant seat...
...eyes of many alert and progressive educators the fraternities stand today in a very serious and weak position. So far have they failed to cooperate or to live up to their possibilities and ideals that ... the fraternity has frequently been the most powerful organ-ized source of moral misbehavior on the campus...