Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Americanism began on board as soon as the Santa Clara pushed out of Panama. Lanky, ascetic Father John F. O'Hara, President of Notre Dame University and chairman of the delegation's committee on intellectual cooperation and moral disarmament repeated his Sunday sermon in Spanish. John L. Lewis' daughter Kathryn made friends with Electrical Worker Dan Tracy of the A. F. of L. Cordell Hull, besides beating all comers in his first try at deck golf, communed long and often at the rail with Delegate Landon. The life of the party, Mr. Landon played bridge seven hours...
...abdicated, is not Her Royal Highness. She is merely the 29th and lowest Duchess in the realm, a fact which annoys the Duke. It seems to him that the royal family's- particularly the royal ladies'-attitude toward the Duchess is needlessly punitive. He also resents the moral indignation raised against the Duchess by that class of English ladies so well represented by Lucy Baldwin, wife of the Prime Minister who pressured him off the throne. With his chin well out, the Duke was said to have introduced his lady to their visitors as "Her Royal Highness...
...ranks in literary and sentimental values with average competent popular fiction. In an earlier day it would probably have been a romantic version of the rise of Andrew Carnegie or Henry Clay Frick. But some misgiving about her hero's ambitions gives Author Turnbull's story a moral twist which is new to such fiction...
...author of "Moral Man and Immoral Society" and "an Interpretation of Christian Ethics" denounced Nazism as a false religion, combining worship of an instrumentality, the corporate state, with collective self-worship, the Nazi race creed...
When "You Can't Take It With You" hit Broadway, it was more or less what the title indicates, a whimsical little comedy, faintly defeatist, emphasizing the fact that shrouds don't have pockets. In the capable hands of Frank Capra, this negative moral was moulded into a powerful eulogy on the value of Friendship. One of the most stirring scenes is that in which Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore) is fined $100 and scores of equally penniless friends take up a collection in court...