Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perfectly clear that the author's intention is to lay bare without any compromise the real significance of the story of Samson and Deliah. Not the moral side, however. He gives us the bald sexual narrative in all its conspicuousness. The sapping of the powerful muscular strength of the giant because of his infatuation for philistine women is hardly pleasant when the veil of old narrative in directness is stripped aside. Especially when...
...warmest ambition is to return to a Federal judgeship in California. If Nominee Hoover is elected, she may get the appointment. That the Senate would confirm her is less certain, in fact most doubtful. In her pursuit and presentation of "the moral issue," she has been as hard on Congressmen as on the rest. Her lack of sympathy for the politics of Prohibition embarrassed the G. O. P. in the 1924 campaign. Now she is "the personification of Prohibition." Few Senators are sufficiently "noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose" to approve putting Mrs. Willebrandt on a bench...
...Milwaukee, the Nominee accepted the Willebrandtine view of Prohibition as a "moral issue." "The question," he said, "is what is the best thing to do about...
...told is the story-with-a-moral that during the first year of business Thomas Bat'a became swelled-headed and assumed the airs of a "Gentleman Manager." Upon discovering that the firm was losing money, however, he renounced gentility "and ever since hard work has been his hobby." Employes of the Founder also know that he, like Henry Ford, is a prohibitionist in theory and an abstainer in practice...
...folly to ask earnest Protestants to keep silent on the moral issue (Prohibition) which they originated, merely because it has been taken up as a political issue by the two great contending parties? Two million Presbyterians were told last week that it is "folly amounting to an absurdity...