Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summations were largely a rehash of the routine publicity outpourings of the Dry organizations represented. Their common points: Prohibition is a great economic, social and moral success; liquor has always bred official corruption; all good citizens should "observe the law and throttle nullification...
...Sultan Moulay Ismail, "The Bloodthirsty," fell to grieving over the moral and physical disintegration of his Arab soldiers. He noticed that the black slaves brought to him from distant Senegal were lion-muscled, superbly built, and as fierce fighters as those ancient Arabs from North Africa who in the 8th Century had swept across southern Spain...
...London a scene in a film in which "a white man" kissed Miss Anna May Wong was ordered cut by British film censors "on moral grounds" * (TIME...
...Hungary and generally on the Continent, censorship is for political, not moral, daring. When the Wong film was submitted to the Royal Hungarian Censor last week, he was scandalized to observe that the white man who, kissed the yellow girl was a Grand Duke. He promptly suppressed the film on the ground of its ''anti-monarchical tendencies...
Holy rites of celebration would be secretly performed in the six-spired Mormon Temple, open only to Mormon church-members in good standing (i.e., approved as moral and right-minded by their local pastors-'"bishops"), and thus long supposed by superstitious Gentiles* to conceal queer ceremonies of polygamous import. But Mormonism is by no means merely a closeted, holy matter. It is also a hard-headed economic system and the communicants are bustling, practical, prosperous. Always have non-Mormons been welcomed to services and organ recitals in the great domed Tabernacle (seating capacity 10,000) just behind the Temple...