Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Association of Museums and the American Federation of Arts. "We need to put more effort into translating art into the daily lives of the people," said President Coolidge. "If we surround ourselves with forms of beauty, the evil things of life would tend to disappear and our moral standards would be raised...
...Woman Tempted. Vera Countess Cathcart, who was ousted from the U. S. by the Department of State because she was full of "moral turpitude," once wrote a novel called The Woman Tempted. It has now come to the U. S. in the form of a British film. It is not immoral, though it depicts a very bad London society woman who steals a friend's fiance and drives him to suicide. In the end, justice is done...
...realized their opportunities and began to take advantage of them in large numbers. Already, while this stage is still incomplete, restrictions are steadily becoming more stringent. The standards are no longer those of wealth and family, and aim, rather unsurely as yet, towards other based on the mental and moral qualities of the individual, but nevertheless education in the colleges at least, is no longer for all. An aristocracy is again growing up, but one better fitted for a democratic country...
...place this afternoon on Soldiers Field. While little can be gleaned from the record of the Lampoon ball tossers so far this season the Mt. Auburn St. Aggregation is reputedly of unusual strength. The power of the CRIMSON nine has been amply demonstrated by its well earned mental and moral victory over the strong Princetonian batsmen last Saturday. The journalist ball players have enjoyed a complete rest from their bruising encounter on the New Jersey turf and are eagerly anticipating this afternoon's fracas with their time-honored rivals...
...harsh sentence of the court might be construed as giving grounds for suspicion that the judges of the case sought to punish him not for the moral qualities of this, one of the first fruit from his pen, but for his revolutionary proclivities in general. This youngster in the field of literature was indeed beginning to regard himself as a martyr, so unjust did he feel the decision to be, and so the reversal of the original verdict is excellent policy on the part of the courts, which have long been accused of a violent ultra-conservatism; they are avoiding...