Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rebellious journals, at Church's command, changed front and Hooverized vociferously. But with Col. Mann still holding forth and the "lily-whites" stronger than ever, Millionaire Church may require fresh and stronger reassurances that the bleaching of the G. O. P., South, is to be purely moral, not racial...
...pedagog, is counting upon a professorship to offset Hedda's extravagances, when he learns that Eilert Lovborg, his onetime friend, has renounced debauchery, published a history of civilization, and may be regarded as a competitor for the professorship. Lovborg, however, reassures George that he is satisfied with his moral victory over vicious diversion...
...week, the apostolic, frock-coated figure of Evangelist Paul Rader, onetime prize fighter, dominated a group of determined antievolutionists. Defenders of the Christian Faith, they called themselves. Their plan: "To establish 48 nerve centres [one in each State] for the suppression of pernicious teachings that are undermining the very moral fibre of our youth...
...very moral fibre"" is, of course, a phrase which always indicates that its utterer means business. And Evangelist Rader further stirred his hearers with many a Bryanesque booming. Examples...
...will increase so far as to compel a radical revision of Federal Reserve policies and functions. Meanwhile, however, speculators were inclined to feel that the Reserve Board's big words were larger than any big stick it might produce, that it was perhaps talking chiefly for the not inconsiderable moral effect which its speech actually did have upon a nervous and inflated Exchange...