Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Above are extracts from an editorial which appeared last week in Hearst newspapers. Hearst editors are more famed for capital letters than for judicial nicety, nevertheless their moral indignation in this case found reasonable support in the facts. For an entire decade (1920-30) the U. S. House of Representatives will not have been chosen according to the Constitution...
Just as no man would ask special praise for not stealing a chicken, so no Congress man asked a moral accolade for support of the Fenn Bill. Nevertheless, there were, by comparison, some who deserved honor. Thus, honor went to the entire New York delegation for voting for the Fenn Bill even though New York will lose a seat. To the entire Pennsylvania delegation went exactly similar honor. But peculiar honor went to Connery of Massachusetts. He is his State's only Democratic Congressman from outside the City of Boston. Since his State has to lose one seat, he felt...
...Every Italian woman must give to her country at least one son every two years. A refusal on this point will be equivalent to pushing men on the road to polygamy ?which, however, is contrary to Fascist moral principles...
...straying husband returns to see his young son who he has learned is ill. Young son's illness is slight, and between father and son there is more talk about a bicycle, approval of which Mary Boyd has withheld. With Christine turned moral and Mary refusing to marry Boyd's best friend?and Cecily eloping with her architect?the play ends in this manner...
Other ballads-with-a-moral for the mail-order circuit and Tin Pan Alley are "The Wreck of the Shenandoah," "The Death of Floyd Collins," more than 200 Lindbergh songs. Least melodic in title is "The Hall-Mills Case...