Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name suggests the show is supposed to represent, though not too seriously, cafe life. This time it's in Spain and no worse on that account than if it were in Paris. Frequent references to "climbing the stairs to the little room above" keep the moral tone sufficiently low to satisfy those who wouldn't be otherwise satisfied...
...moral: Name the commodity in the slogan. "Let the Ivory Twins do your Work." "When you see an Arrow, Think of Smith Brothers Cough Drops." "If it isn't a Whoozis, It isn't a Whatsitsname...
...Anglo-German lineage-would she sympathize with Slavic-Byzantine fancies and foibles? Profoundly religious, she had resisted a change of faith, then, suddenly veered, passionately to avow Greek orthodoxy-was it for love of the Cesarevitch, or for ulterior reasons? Considering the influences of liberalism, political if not moral, at her British grandmother's court-would she encourage her royal spouse to grant a constitution? In any event, the poor child was to be pitied coming as she did to a gloomy court that awaited the death of Alexander...
Article 11 of the law new regulations provides for the admission of all candidates "whose examinations and school records in the judgement of the Committee on Admission, show them to be students of high academic distinction and of good moral character." This standard of judgement has been substituted for the average of seventy-five per cent in entrance tests that has been the mark of academic excellence What this substitution allows the Admissions Committee is a greater latitude in the exercise of a selective process...
...freedom to pick over and weekout candidates for college entrance to advantage, but it can be easily abused. In a liberty of choice guaranteed by such a nebulous phrase as "high academic distinction and good moral character" lies the danger that it may be used to the benefit of a general type of student whose preponderance in the College might appear to insure a balance perhaps acceptable. But the injustice to the candidate is apparent, and the gain of Harvard in the too-liberal employment of selective right is doubtful...