Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moral turpitude" became a national catch-phrase when U. S. immigration authorities used it as grounds for barring entrance into the U. S. of Vera, Countess Cathcart. Countess Cathcart's moral turpitude consisted of having been named as corespondent in a divorce case. Last week, "moral turpitude" suddenly popped up in U. S. headlines again for the first time in more than a decade. Occasion was the arrival in New York of Mme Magdeleine La Ferriére ("Magda de Fontanges"), Parisian journalist and actress who last spring pinked France's one-time Ambassador to Italy Count Charles...
...obtain a gainful occupation for the purpose of making an honorable living." Same day the Board of Special Inquiry, making a delicate distinction between her case and that of Countess Cathcart, excluded her not because of her amours but "because of an admission of a crime involving moral turpitude, to wit, assault with a dangerous weapon." Unless Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins reverses the Board's ruling on her fellow working woman, Magda de Fontanges will be sent back to France this week...
...Clark classifies U. S. sects as Pessimistic (Adventists who believe that most of mankind is bad, that Jesus Christ will return to take members of the "True Church" into Heaven); Perfectionist (Methodist and "Holiness" groups which hold that moral perfection should be the goal of Christians); Charismatic (Pentecostal or "Holy Roller" sects whose members consider themselves endowed with special charismata or gifts, such as the gift of speaking in "unknown tongues"); Communistic (the almost-defunct Shakers, the defunct Oneida Community, the still-existing Church Triumphant of Estero. Fla., whose members believe that the world is a hollow ball, with...
Will he walk around the grass plot as a decent citizen should, upholding his moral fortitude, but flunking, or will he take the criminal short cut, reaching the exam just in time? A question indeed, but should he flunk, Harvard architecture will have claimed another victim
...like life was complicated by nothing more serious than the easily outwitted jealousy of a native chief and by the natives' insistence that he take a beautiful 14-year-old girl as his mistress to prepare her, according to strict native custom, for her husband. Gonzalo balked for moral reasons (senseless abstractions to the tribesmen) and because he really wanted to marry her. In time, having won enough prestige to make his own law. he settled down happily with his "tawny Venus'' and raised a family. Nearly eight years later, when a Spanish vessel appeared, he engineered...