Word: morality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That's me all over, thought each of the 125 jobhunters who last week answered advertisements for an "Honest man with moral qualifications wanted to play the part of Sir Galahad." The man in search of a Galahad was Franciscan Patrick Mc-Carthy of St. Christopher's Inn, Graymoor. N. Y. Chosen Galahad, after two hours of auditions and soul searchings, was 17-year-old Business-Schoolboy Ralph Welliver...
...dramatizing pious chronicles. For Galahad's role in his dramatization of the quest for the Holy Grail, businesslike Father Patrick would have none of WMCA's actors, demanded one who would measure up not only to his conception of the pure knight's appearance, but his moral character...
Among the 125 applicants, 27 survived moral examination. Schoolboy Welliver was chosen because he was the best actor of this stainless group. His specifications : 5 ft. 10 in. tall, 148 lb., blue eyes, brown hair, a Boy Scout patrol leader...
...Since no legal statute prohibits and no moral sense prevents the exploitation of the death of my son in the Spanish war for the publicity purposes of subversive politics, my patriotic chore prompts me to proclaim this 'memorial meeting' for what it is-more Moscow...
...winter of 1907, Manhattan had its most celebrated operatic scandal. Critics scolded, pulpits seethed. The solemn, stiff-collared directors of the Metropolitan Opera House went into a huddle, sent a word of warning to harried Director Heinrich Conried. The grounds for this protest were moral. Its cause was a new opera which had just been given its Metropolitan premiere. In the opera a necrophilic heroine disrobed before her gloating, drunken stepfather, demanding as the price of her strip tease the head of an imprisoned prophet. To the severed head, duly served up on a platter, she made more or less...