Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ezek. 33:23; Lev. 15:16-33: Deut. 23:1; 2:13; 25:11-12; 1 Sam. 25:22; 2 Sam. 11:2-5; 1 Kings 14:10; 16:11; 21:21: Job. 40 :16-17 ; Luke 1:41-44 ; Rom. 1:26-27. Wonderful moral lessons might be learned from these. If you print this letter which you are at liberty to do, you might better exclude these citations as they might open some people's eyes and thus make infidels of them, thereby jeopardizing their happiness in the world to come...
Combine Clara Bow, a sour moral, and "it" and you can only trust to luck Frank Strayer trusted--so this week finds "Rough House Rosie" sending thrills into the cerebral mud of local fandom at the Metropolitan...
Into the first volume Dr. McGuffey put monosyllabic fables about busy bees, lame dogs, silly geese, kind cows, cruel boys, inventing the formula of printing a dogmatic MORAL at the end of each lesson, rigidly adhered to throughout the series...
...years, in 1877, were the McGuffey's seriously threatened. Then appeared the Appleton readers, prepared by the school superintendents of St. Louis and Cleveland with a Yale professor. It was a lavish series, handsomely illustrated. The McGuffey's survived this onslaught only by those sterling moral values which had made them a byword in the land, a staple commodity at every general store. That they have now vanished utterly from schoolrooms will be difficult to prove, especially since they owe their whole existence to what many claimed, at the time, was a miracle...
...Theory that God maintains natural and moral evils as contrast and counterbalance to His good...