Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example of Hollywood's recent Recession-prompted hunt for old stories available for revival, The Shopworn Angel illustrates one consequence: in the effort to remain consistent, the Hays organization has failed to censor material which it passed in 1929, although the characters involved scarcely meet the moral requirements of 1938's purified cinema sex life. Best sequence: Pettigrew calling on Daisy at the stage door to prove to his cynical messmates that he really knows...
...Manhattan, another ex-G-Man, Tom Tracy, declared in the Daily News: "Because of our moral aloofness to the great international pastime of snoop-look-and-listen, America has become just one vast peek-easy...
...Tekakwitha (1656-1680), for whose beatification proceedings were begun by the Bishop of Albany in 1931. Steps toward canonization include examination of the candi date's writings, collection of evidence on martyr dom or heroic practice of the theological virtues - faith, hope and charity - and the four great moral virtues - prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance. Evidence of two miracles worked before beatification and two afterward is required for canonization...
White Banners (Warner Bros.) continues the campaign of moral uplift which its author, Lloyd Cassel Douglas, started in Magnificent Obsession and Green Light. Central character of Green Light was a bubbly jocular minister who, when the minor characters in the story became upset, explained to them that humanity was a kind of automotive parade best governed by the traffic signals of unselfishness. In White Banners, the minister is replaced by a warm-hearted maid-of-all-work named Hannah (Fay Bainter). Otherwise, the formula is much the same. When Hannah straggles into the household of a high-school science teacher...
...eighth grade. Prime aim of the Ford educational plan is to produce a nation of handy men, rather than poets or philosophers. His curriculum excludes all but "useful" subjects. Thus, his schools teach no foreign language, no art but the utilitarian, no literature for its own sake. Fond of moral precepts such as abound in the McGuffey Readers, Henry Ford values as literature Longfellow's The Village Blacksmith, because of its message. He likes to read to children these McGuffey verses...