Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foreign parts again and again. I have a fervent hope, however, that this new doctrine of criminality will not deter our citizens from extending American professions and business anywhere in the world. They always bring something home, and pay taxes on it. (e) I gather also that it is moral turpitude on my part to have managed large enterprises. The hope to rise from the ranks of labor to the ranks of management will, however, probably not be crushed from the heart of the American boy even by this onslaught...
Then spoke Secretary of State Kellogg: "I believe it is a great step forward in civilization-a great moral step...
...chef was the Rev. John Roach Straton, blatant Manhattan pulpiteer, who characterized Governor Smith, last fortnight, as "the deadliest foe in America today of the forces of moral progress and true political wisdom." Challenged to debate the charge in his own Calvary Baptist Church (TIME, Aug. 20), Pulpiteer Straton weasled, tried to shift the scene to local amphitheatres. But Nominee Smith declined to make a public show. He wrote: "The answer to my request to appear in your church before your parishioners ... is yes or no." Pulpiteer Straton answered: "Emphatically and unchangeably yes." But he meant "no," he would...
...brought to them by their children's use of liquor in a way which was unknown before prohibition. I believe in reverence for law. Today disregard of the prohibition laws is insidiously sapping respect for all law. I raise, therefore, what I profoundly believe to be a great moral issue involving the righteousness of our national conduct and the protection of our children's morals...
...Elmer Gantry now, but no less eager to share a bed of shame. At the end, there is no lessening of his success nor any change of tactics. He is seen spewing, before an unseen congregation, a prayer that "we may make this a moral nation...