Word: moralistes
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...vellum to carry to the White House and present personally to his subject. The President will find in it not only a record of his own career but also many views, comments and digressions by the author, also photographs of the author holding his country's flag. A moralist, Biographer Marsh is no less interested in Prohibition, Public Schools and the art of growing rich than he is in Herbert Hoover...
...earth. No trained artist, he has been stirred, by Radio Corp.'s development from a communications business into an amusement business, to ponder the potentialities of radio as the basis of a new national art form, especially for a new generation unhampered by old art forms. Never a moralist, he has said: "In no other profession [besides Business], not excepting the ministry and the law, is the need for wide information, broad sympathies and directed imagination so great." Always that kind of a business man, he has foreseen the necessity of national communications monopoly, wires and wireless, government-controlled...
...father held, and I still hold with the great English moralist Acton that "happily for society" we may dismiss the supposition that women have sexual feelings as "a vile aspersion...
...Idle Moralist...
...together into boundless happiness. But no-the moral ending requires that Jean and the Prince shall build anew. . . . It is entertaining fiction to read on an idle evening, despite the author's constant sermonizing on the evils of divorce. If Owen Johnson, storyteller, would oust Owen Johnson, moralist, from his works, he might resurrect the fame that was his for The Varmint, The Tennessee Shad, Stover at Yale...