Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such a newspaper. It is owned by an aggressive young Harvard graduate, John Cowles, and his father. Its morning and evening editions have different names, but the monopoly is complete- the result of several consolidations. Castigators have often said that a monopoly breeds stagnation-not to mention other moral evils-but in Des Moines, the Cowles are spending more money in putting out an alert, progressive paper than, others do in fighting competitors. Old and famed as a morning-evening-Sunday newspaper is the Kansas City Star (in the morning it is called the Times). The Times and the Star...
...years, six mornings a week during the college year William Herbert Perry Faunce has stood before his young gentlemen in chapel and told a story, pointed a moral. Attentive listeners, year by year, could detect no repetition, could spot no bromides, in the smooth flow of oratory...
...this time he held many jobs?but all within cloistered quads or the protecting arms of the Church. He taught mathematics at Brown, led erring sinners back to the Baptist fold in Springfield, Mass., New York, and Harvard. In 1899 he became Presi- dent of Brown & Professor of Moral & Intellectual Philosophy. His classes in Moral & Intellectual Philosophy were small but his Presidency was adequate...
...years the Sunday Evening Club has maintained "a service of Christian inspiration and fellowship in the business centre to promote the moral and religious welfare of the city." Principally this service has consisted of bringing noted divines of all faiths to speak to audiences made up of all faiths. It is as non-sectarian as a subway train. The club's season begins in October, ends in May. The infrequent churchgoer, the stranded salesman, the sedulously religious, the homebody, the student, the tycoon, the clerk, these people and their like attend...
...Methodist ministers of Ohio. Reason: "In the name of Ohio Methodism I desire to report that the services of Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt in Ohio have produced a profound impression on the moral forces of the entire state"-Bishop T h e o d o r e S u m m e r s H e n d e r s o n . Florence Reed, actress. Reason: "No wise housewife would discharge an efficient d o m e s t i c s e r v a n t . & a m p ; q u o t ; Louis J. Tabor, Master...