Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orient's greatest, suavest diplomats are Chinese Ambassador to France Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo and Chinese Ambassador to Great Britain Dr. Quo Taichi. Ordered to Geneva last week by Chinese Dictator Chiang Kaishek, their job was to raise the moral issue of the undeclared war Japan is now waging in China before the Assembly of the League and the conscience of the World. Too wise to beat their breasts or attempt either a pious or an ethical appeal, Dr. Koo and Dr. Quo simply arrived in Geneva much before the Assembly was to meet and conversed intelligently with...
...third-rate melodrama, Mayerling is helped toward verisimilitude by the accuracy of its baroque Viennese trimmings, and by the excellent representational music of Arthur Honegger. More serious cinemagoers, however, may wish that the story had come a little closer to grips with human fact, if only by cribbing the moral that Playwright Maxwell Anderson set to the tale in his Masque of Kings last winter: that to rule brutalizes. The Lower Depths (Albatros). Maxim Gorki, literary darling of the Russian masses both before and after the revolution, wrote The Lower Depths in 1902 to show the disease, despair and degradation...
...Century, the Dottoressa was welcomed by Danish newspapers as "the greatest living Italian orator." Using no notes, waiting patiently for her interpreters, last week the Dottoressa wanted to talk about children from a new point of view. ''The adult," she declared, "must understand the meaning of the moral defence of humanity, not the armed defence of nations. He must realize that the child will be the creator of the new world peace. In a suitable environment the child reveals unsuspected social characteristics. The qualities he shows will be the salvation of the world, showing us all the road...
...Hounds of Spring) contributed another long, episodic novel depicting some unsavory doings among the best people. Since Recapture the MOON, has a central character who is fundamentally decent, and since it ends happily, its picture of social decay is not so thoroughgoing as Huxley's, but its moral atmosphere is still distinctly gamey...
...team at Harvard. Said Vivian Burnett, who later became a reporter, an editor of McClure's Magazine, author of a biography of his mother: "I could write a book about what Fauntleroy has been to me. I try to get away from it but I can't." Moral of Fauntleroy was the value of altruism. Vivian Burnett died last week of a heart attack just after he and a party of friends, sailing on Long Island Sound in his yawl Delight III, had rescued four people from a capsized sailboat...