Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caption "Ethiopian Icon" on p. 15 of the Jan. 6 issue of TIME. It would seem that an editor should feel under some obligation to observe the ordinary standards of decency in selecting material to be presented to his readers. Since your magazine apparently does not consider the moral welfare of its readers, we are compelled in the interests of more than 20,000 high school students in our city to remove the above mentioned number from our high school libraries...
...most vital problem with which this country, and, for that matter, the whole civilized world, has to deal, is the problem which has for one side the betterment of social conditions, moral and physical, in large cities, and for the other side the effort to deal with that tangle of far-reaching questions which we group together when we speak of 'labor...
...blanket approval and does not mind how outrageously her daughter behaves so long as she is spared the details. Actress Douglass, whose heart is obviously in her work, conclusively endears herself to any member of the audience who has a Southern female relative when, faced with the supreme moral problem of her daughter's disgrace, her final judgment is: "Ah think the world would be a lot better off if everybody lived in Louisville...
Ceiling Zero (Warner), a crisp adaptation of last year's successful stage play, is not apt to whet the average citizen's appetite for flying, despite the moral that pilots are brave men willing to die for Science...
...moral lesson the Dostoievsky classic teaches is limited in its application. If shows how a brilliantly intellectual man with nerves breaks down under the weight on his conscience of a murder he has committed and for which an innocent man is in danger of being executed. If it had general application, if it depicted the mental process of all murderers, we would have no unsolved murders. We must presume the perpetrators of the unsolved crimes have neither consciences nor nerves, thus the "Crime and Punishment" theme cannot apply to them...