Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Officials who examined her found that she was an incorrigible from the start, a "moral imbecile" and "definitely anti-social," but too intelligent for an institution for the feebleminded...
Playwright MacOwan's somewhat misapplied earnestness is ably abetted by Actor Banks, whose moral austerity and quirks of personality convincingly reek of heather. Actress Menken's husky voice has always been effective when sober things were being spoken; she still achieves miracles of makeup which make her seem almost beautiful. One of the season's most extraordinary moments occurs when, as a barefoot invalid, she extends her foot toward the audience and spreads and wiggles her toes with astounding flexibility...
...objections specifically to Mr. Hughes were negligible: I) his resignation from the Supreme Court in 1916 to run for President; 2) his corporation law practice; 3) his silence on moral obloquy in the Harding Cabinet; 4) his defense of onetime Senator Newberry of Michigan on the ground that the Senate had no constitutional right to look into State primaries. Assuring critics he would be a fair-minded judge, his friends in the Senate let the opposition blow itself out. made no formal effort to defend him. Mr. Hughes was confirmed as the eleventh Chief Justice...
...Castel-Benac made one tactical mistake. Having determined to rid his office of the gibbering and useless M. Topaze, he procured a farewell gift for that pedagog by gentle blackmail. It was the particular gleam which M. Topaze had long been following-a degree of Doctor of Moral Philosophy. And when he received it, the schoolmaster was transmogrified. A year later he had become a super-politician, beardless, monocled, fastidiously draped, who had gigantically dishonest deals as far as South America, had acquired M. Castel-Benac's office and was about to acquire M. Castel-Benac's dutiful...
Joseph. The Biblical Joseph was an earnest and moral slave who repulsed the advances of the wife of his master Potiphar, because he was grateful for Potiphar's kindness and wanted no illicit fun in the first place. Joseph's nobility suffers in the theatrical version of him conceived by Playwright Bertram Bloch and performed by George Jessel. They make it quite clear that he balked at adultery not because of lofty scruples, but because he was afraid Neris would ultimately fling him to the crocodiles, her customary farewell to outworn lovers. Actor Jessel, swarthy, expressive young Hebrew...