Word: moralistes
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...back and wash its mouth out. Its entire effect was vitiated merely by inserting near the beginning a telephone scene wherein Melvyn Douglas discovers that the flame he is playing with is really his wife. From then on his adulterous activities become husbandly jesting acceptable to the thinnest- lipped moralist. The trouble with the picture now is that it not only fails to offend, but fails to excite. The best fun in seeing it comes from noting where the ghost of its former salacious self, keeps bobbing up between the lines and leering. But wherever Sex has stuck its head...
This that I affirm is not the wishful thinking of a moralist. It is an everyday fact. It is a commonplace truth. . . . I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never...
Around this central theme weaves many a sequence illuminating the fight of good and evil in Kings Row. Dr. Henry Gordon (Charles Coburn), surgeon and sadistic moralist, unnecessarily amputates both legs of a likable good-time-Charlie (Ronald Reagan). Denounced by his distraught daughter (Nancy Coleman), he offers her a choice of silence or confinement in the insane asylum. Brave Randy Monaghan (Ann Sheridan), shanty Irish and desirable, marries her legless sweetheart and cables Parris to come home. The young medico returns, full of his new knowledge, to find that the ills of Kings Row are still beyond his scope...
...should think most veterans of the last war may well be interested in this, as many will recall how the W. C. T. U. and other moralist organizations forced the 18th Amendment into the Constitution while millions of conscripts were in the armed forces of America...
Also last week came the annual report of the Public Morality Council, signed by its chairman, the Rt. Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Bishop of London, 52, an athletic, old-school-tie moralist with a wife and six sons whom he calls his "seven assets." P. M. C. was highly alarmed about "importuning in the streets" from noon until dawn in the Hyde Park, Piccadilly, Victoria, Bond, Regent and Oxford Street areas, by English, French, German, Italian and Welsh tarts aged 20 to 60. A careful checkup revealed an average of 91 importunists per hour in one street. Two police officers...