Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the immigration authorities were last week considering and reconsidering the case of the Countess Cathcart (TIME, March 1) who had been denied admission on the grounds of moral turpitude, having been divorced for adultery ?and while her lawyers were taking her case to court?the law-makers of the nation were not ignorant of world events...
...them, Congressman Emanuel Celler, Democrat from Brooklyn, issued a statement: "If the Carthcart case shows anything it proves that our Government has no right to meddle in private morals of foreigners visiting us. The so-called 'moral turpitude' of the Countess Cathcart is nothing compared to the 'moral turpitude' of the chasing but not chaste Prince of Wales. Why was he allowed to enter? His parents are up all night worrying about his night life. How about Sarah Bernhardt and Eleanore Duse? They made no bones about their affairs and were admitted. Gaby Deslys was no novice...
...tale of a drunken fisherman at an English seaside, resort who successfully sued for libel an authoress who had described a drunken fisherman of that resort in one of her novels without so much as mentioning his name. Lord Gorrell told the story, attached to it a moral in the shape of a bill to protect writers from such obviously "put up" libel suits. Sharply criticised, he withdrew the measure for revision...
Colds-in-the-Head are a frightful handicap to columns and courses. But really one just has to have one. It's being done. Colds and moral turpitude are quite the thing, positively the dernier cri. So this column must suffer--from a Cold-in-the-Head. That and the asperin which goes with it. Funny thing, asperin. Asperin plus Irene Bordoni makes "Mmmmm--Do I Love you?" rob the brain of any efficiency what so ever. But probably some one will think this is polyphonic prose or a time table and get something out of it, so after...
...Audrey as well as football. But such minor errors cannot blot the heroic vigor of the plot structure. That Bobbie did not bother with the freshman team matters very little. Revere artists like Lillian are often careless of detail (Ed. note. This means nothing?) But, as I said of moral turpitude or was it colds--what...