Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sacredness of the Constitution, including a long quotation from George Washington's Farewell Address, condemning State-determinism as a threat to Federal sovereignty which he supposed the Civil War had ended forever, Candidate Willis floated over the fourth question on his initial impetus, omitting all economic and moral considerations that attach specifically to Prohibition. He said...
...Senate's Sense. It had no legal value. Its moral value was washed out by partisan undercurrents. Its application was so indefinite that Senator Reed of Pennsylvania was moved to say: "You might as well pass a resolution in favor of the Ten Commandments." But the Senate, after three days of wrangling, twitting, theorizing and horseplaying, passed it anyway, 56 to 26-a resolution by boyish Senator LaFollette "that it is the sense of the Senate that the precedent established by Washington and other Presidents of the United States in retiring from the Presidential office after their second term...
Songster Grace Moore surpassed her predecessors in the quality of her message to other U. S. singers: "You CAN do it if you have talent, persistence, courage and the inward flame! First, have you God-given talent? If so, carry on beyond all obstacles! You must have the moral courage to face defeat smilingly, to keep your head up, your eyes straight to the front, and to shun the temptation of the primrose path. Carry on till you sing to 'His Glory,' till you can make a weary people forget the troubles of reality. And good luck...
...sharp perception of Headmaster Stearns pointed a moral when he said that the Modern Schoolboy is "possibly a bit lacking in some of the more rugged qualities" due to "the fault of the modern social conditions in which he finds himself living." And Headmaster Perry seemed to sense a lack of mental ruggedness. "They have far more information but possibly less intellectual curiosity...
...question of enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment has become an outstanding moral issue in America today and has raised the question of obedience to the fundamental law of our land, including all amendments to the Constitution, particularly the Fourteenth* and Fifteenth?...