Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman ended his art lecture by letting reporters quote direct a Missouri moral: "I believe in taking pains in anything...
Joseph E. ("Pal Joey") Davies, onetime U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., came to the Reds' rescue: "Russia in self-defense had every moral right to seek atomic-bomb secrets through military espionage, if excluded from such information by her former fighting allies...
...corrupt but essentially comic world in which everyone was either too fat or too thin. Plump, pug-faced William Hogarth was perhaps harder to take. With less wit, he had gone deeper into the cynical, sensual, swaggering spirit of his time, and used his engraving tools, like a moral surgeon, to lay bare the malignant tumors of cruelty, ignorance and greed...
...burlesque in again-at least on parole. In an open letter to self-made Mayor William O'Dwyer, Equity magazine presented its plea. Sure, burlesque had its faults, but they were not great enough "to justify annihilation." Even Boston and Philadelphia, "which take a very high moral stand on the theater," have their burlesque shows...
...Governments which "have no real moral background; they evolve of necessity in the direction of ever greater centralization and more stringent uniformity...