Word: morality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mind telling you and the world that I believe a license for light wines and beers would be a great improvement over the present Prohibition laws. ... I find a good many of the members of Congress feel just about as I do but lack the moral courage to stand up and vote as they believe." Three weeks later Senator Gould reported to the company his progress as a winemaker: "It [two kegsful] was working quite lively. In fact the pressure was so great that the head of the kegs was bulged. I worked the gas off gradually and finally...
...alarm of British diehards and the delight of U. S. seadogs, several British periodicals picked up this suggestion and pressed it editorially. Britain's "bases" at Bermuda, Nassau, Jamaica, Trinidad and Barbados constitute moral if not actually military threats to the Panama Canal...
...Significance. Neither as scholarly nor as impartial as his publishers believe, Author Winkler gives a very human, very rambling account. Moral, he writes: "[Graft] can scarcely be prevented when private citizens deliberately defy the moral and legal codes of organized society." He tries to stop as short of libel as of praise. Psychologically, his work is a study of the U. S. single-track mind engaged in the prime U. S. occupation?money-making. Historically, the work treats of a career coincident with the entire post-Civil War development of U. S. industry...
Last week the American Federation of Labor came to Equity's support, saying: "Your cause is our cause . . . your struggle is our struggle." Equity opponents scorned this as bombastic "moral support." But Equity adherents foresaw that cinemas made by anti-Equity producers might be boycotted by A. F. of L. members and families. Hollywood technicians of all sorts are 'being unionized to help the Equity cause...
...Nudism, a mulligan stew of vegetarianism, physical culture and pagan worship. The outstanding feature is that all devotees must live in a state of complete spectacular nudity.* Much publicity has been given the Nudist colony on an island in the Seine near Paris. Lively have been their arguments, moral, economic, religious, with Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe over the matter of bathing trunks. Some weeks ago a young French reporter paid a secret visit to the Nudist colony. So depressing, so disillusioning was his published account of the flabby spectacle that the romantic French press and public lost interest...