Word: morality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...having no such schooling in democracy as pre-Revolution Americans, would first swing to bloody revolutionary extremes, then fall into the hands of unscrupulous dictators. French rulers, said Morris, had so corrupted the French masses that they "have no Religion but their Priests, no Law but their Superiors, no Moral but their Interest." Gouverneur Morris appears, in short, as a well-meaning liberal, preaching moderation to people who, on the Right and Left alike, wanted none of it. As for his scheme to smuggle Louis XVI to the U. S., even Tom Paine joined him in that humane intrigue...
...obvious moral is: he whose first choice is one of the more popular Houses should make his second choice where the rush is not so reminiscent of Park Street Under at five o'clock in the afternoon...
Looking thoroughly existent, Dr. Buchman arrived last week in Manhattan, determined to sell Buchmanism under its newest name, "Moral Re-Armament," in the U. S. and Canada during the next three months. Dr. Buchman revealed that his Groupers had lately induced British milk dealers to place the initials M. R. A. upon 4,000,000 milk-bottle tops. Cried the founder: "I'm sure America will do as much. America will never lag behind in milk-bottle tops...
...this has a very definite moral. If Dartmouth--or Harvard--wishes to continue local reform at the expense of public relations, the chances of a successful drive should be carefully weighed. For it is absurd to create town-gown enmity without some sort of return for the sacrifice. So far it has been all sacrifice for Harvard this winter, as Plan E lies in the graveyard and town animosity has reached an all time high. The spectacle is sad; but, if it serves as an example and warning to Dartmouth, Harvard's suffering has not been entirely in vain...
...nearly two thousand years the Roman Catholic Church has waged an unending spiritual war. Against heathendom, against heresy, the Church has not ceased from moral strife. Last week, when its Princes met in Rome to choose a new Pope, the Church's war against heresy-the totalitarian heresies of Left and Right -had reached a critical point...