Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a few detours into blind alleys, David Coyle thus blithely and optimistically charges down the middle of his road to a new U.S. His moral is that business should be encouraged, not dismayed, by signs of CONSTRUCTION AHEAD. "The middle-of-the-road doctrine, adopted in this book," he explains, "is that the common theory of capitalism is not an iron law, but that capitalism is flexible enough to escape...
...Harlow put his squad through the usual pro-game warm-up in the Stadium. Tenseness was evident, but there is not the slightest chance that Harvard will go into today's game thinking they are beaten. Underdog though they certainly are, there is no talk of going for a "moral victory" game...
Madrilenos, now facing their third winter of siege, rationed only 100 grams (about three and one-half ordinary hard rolls) of bread daily, feared that their enemies' gifts contained poison. Leftist chemists said they contained only "moral poison," called the bread bombings a "grotesque" gesture by aviators otherwise engaged in "assassinating women and children in defenseless towns." Grotesque or not, the bread shower was a pointed reminder that in Rightist Spain only a few nonessential items (tobacco, coffee, sugar) are scarce, while in overpopulated Leftist Spain the problem of foodstuffs is nearly as acute as that which faced Germany...
Stablemates (Metro-GoIdwyn-Mayer) gives Wallace Beery a chance to duplicate, with a few trivial alterations, his famed role in The Champ (1931). In The Champ, Beery was a broken-down plug-ugly who achieved moral and physical regeneration through his desire to justify the adoration of little Jackie Cooper. In Stablemates, he is a dilapidated veterinary surgeon, restored to some degree of selfrespect by the grateful affection of Mickey Rooney and a race horse named Lady...
...enough to justify its being called a nation, he says, it is Jefferson's slogan: "Equal rights for all, special privileges for none." Worn smooth by innumerable stump speakers, preached by thousands who did not practice them, these are nevertheless revolutionary words; they involve a great moral principle, imply a belief in plain citizens, and a greater degree of economic justice than any nation has ever possessed. If everyone acted upon them "we should not be saying that 'everybody ought to be equally rich'; but each year fewer of us would care whether we were rich...