Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dictionary that would establish a national language as a bond of national unity. New England life might be hard and strenuous, but when intellectuals looked toward Europe they saw a continent that was exhausted by the Napoleonic Wars. At the sight of such overseas confusion, despair and "moral degradation," they grew strong with confidence in their own simpler environment and in their moral serenity and self-reliance...
Since the British Civil Service is by definition impeccable and incorruptible, and since the permanent secretary of a ministry-such as Sir Warren Fisher at the Treasury or Sir Robert Vansittart at the Foreign Office-is always rated as of finer moral fibre, higher intelligence and greater ability than the political transients who serve as His Majesty's Ministers, the dismissal of Sir Christopher Bullock last week implied, at the least, some sort of scandalous corruption somewhere. Nevertheless, because no permanent official of the Civil Service can well be charged with corruption without tarnishing its spotless record, Prime Minister...
...words of unpractical wisdom devoted to the subject of marriage, the observation that this estate will always endure is perhaps the least heartening to a quarrelsome couple. Last week a distinguished English sociologist advanced this thesis to U. S. readers in a scholarly volume packed with quotations from moral and scientific authorities ranging from Stendhal to Havelock Ellis, from Montaigne and the Hebrew prophets to Bertrand Russell and Judge Ben Lindsey. Unmarried himself, Dr. Edward Alexander Westermarck is eminently equipped to support his point of view, has written on the subject of marriage for the past 47 years...
Born in Helsingfors in 1862, Dr. Westermarck began his career with The Origin of Human Marriage, published in 1889, has continued it with The History of Human Marriage, The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, Marriage Ceremonies in Morocco, Ethical Relativity. Professor at the University of London for 23 years, he has gained his reputation on the strength of his careful scholarship and his broad liberal views, and despite his tendency to speak in platitudes...
...stories of these people in their rapid rises and catastrophic falls. One is the Newsreel, an effective muddle of headlines, fragments of speeches, news stories, popular songs. Each about a page long, they serve to fix the time of the action as well as to suggest the general moral and intellectual climate of the U. S. during the period. Thus the Newsreel that follows a chapter telling of Margo Dowling's miserable marriage includes a song that was popular at the moment, headline reference to topics that were then being discussed : . . . the kind of a girl that men forget...