Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only did the Prime Minister show himself a great Minister of the Crown, but the whole British people displayed a moral force," said Le Temps of Paris last week. "This test, which was very perilous, has magnificently confirmed the value of British institutions...
Says one of these Gentlemen in substance: "Is it even necessary that there be a Coronation?* If there is none, the Archbishop of Canterbury's conjectured refusal on moral ground to officiate at the Coronation of one known to contemplate marriage with a twice-divorced woman evaporates...
...pops its protagonist on the boards naked in all his pompous vanity, groping lubricity, childish craftiness, monetary venality and explosive blasphemy. Author McNally has studied the character of Wagner with an unblinded eye, makes full allowances for the poetic moral license commonly granted artists. The McNally-Lawson Wagner states the morality of an artist very clearly when he confesses that he has been mean, selfish, harsh, unfaithful, ungrateful; but, he says, he has learned his trade so well that no one in the world can teach him anything about music, and he has never allowed the most egregious hardships...
Died. John Ringling, 70, last of the seven Ringling circus brothers (others' Al, Gus, Otto, Alf T., Charles E., Henry); of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. For an early Ringling performance he spent $3.50 for handbills advertising "Ringling Brothers' Moral, Elevating, Instructive & Fascinating Concert & Variety Performance," strummed the bass viol at a one-night show in their Baraboo, Wis. backyard. Head of the American Circus Corp., which controlled every sizable U. S. circus unit, in 1933 he had been forced to sign over most of the Ringling assets to meet an interest payment on a loan...
...great deal of information about Morris which few U. S. readers are likely to possess. Reveling in the factional fights, manifestoes, grandiose plans and pitiful performances that then distinguished English Socialism, Shaw was more at horns among them than Morris, who was a radical from a strong sense of moral duty and an even stronger revulsion from the ugliness of industrialism. Morris was a "very great literary artist" but his tremendous vocabulary was often no help in describing uncongenial modern things. Shaw would suggest the right word, whereupon Morris would gasp with relief. Morris was infuriated with hecklers at debates...