Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...burlesque theatre ever pretended to be on the same moral plane as a theological seminary. Columnist Westbrook Pegler recalls a pre-War burlesque house on State Street in Chicago where, after the performance, the comedian auctioned off the girls to members of the audience, "who claimed them then and there and took them, still in costume, to the beer hall in the rear. Possibly they married and settled down in the suburbs to raise large families of respectable Americans, but from the way things seemed to be going about midnight that was impossible." Pre-War burlesque, however...
...nation. In recent years the practice of a twenty-fifth reunion has done splendid work in bringing back to the confines of Harvard, men in all walks of life, in all callings and in every profession. Holders of vastly different political creeds and men firm in varied social and moral beliefs have met and renewed acquaintances and friendships here, twenty-five years before, they roamed, and worked and played and progressed along the academic path each according to his own ability and chosen technique...
...ways like Mr. Santayana's father; and though it is not true, as many have thought, that Santayana tried to reveal his own personality through Oliver and Mario still they do reflect a bit of his general character. It seems to me that Mr. Santayana, like Oliver, is deeply moral. Daub his philosophy what you will, there is always the moral flavor. It is this morality that bridges his materialism with his mysticism. But this is all another story...
Bringing to an unexpected and dramatic conclusion the swift and most spectacular public outburst of moral indignation that New York has witnessed in many a moon,--perhaps not even since the mass closing of saloons at the start of the prohibition era,--Commissioner Moss terminated the licenses of seventeen burlesque houses last Saturday. Thus, by withholding a flick of the official fountain pen, the metropolis' commissar of theatrical productions has arbitrarily put to end one of the least desirable phases of the glorification of the American Girl, and incidentally to the jobs of about six hundred more or less honest...
...Tommy") Manville Jr., playboy asbestos heir, canceled the trip, explaining that he had reneged, not because his estranged fourth wife Marcelle Edwards had reserved passage on the same boat, but because he had been informed "indirectly" that the British Government objected to his presence during the Coronation. "Moral turpitude and things like that," said...