Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personally favor a plank referring to the Eighteenth Amendment and the laws enacted to carry it into effect, and I favor a plank pledging the nominee to a fair, vigorous and faithful enforcement of them. In my opinion, it is the greatest moral issue of all ages, and public sentiment demands that both of the political parties declare themselves unequivocally upon it. Should I be nominated and elected President I favor meeting the issue squarely and believe in the strict and energetic enforcement of the laws to carry out the constitutional amendment...
...intelligent undergraduate, too, believes that he is "fundamentally sound". But without being a Dr. Straton, he is not sanguine in the opinion of one school of adult commentators, that his contemporaries, with all their frankness and freedom, are still as strongly supporting the moral conventions. They are not, even if they have no spokesman to admit it. The precocious Miss Benson has discussed the subject in Vanity Fair, but she really is too young. Without being accused of ventriloquism, Judge Ben Lindsay has drawn startling statements from young Cleveland malefactors, and wielded them for his purpose. But the educated youth...
...they would be presumably damned were it not for one among them who was pure. She shows the path to sobriety, sweetness, light. A little child shall lead them. She had to, because all the mothers and fathers went out drinking and necking even more earnestly. There lies the moral. Nice old father and mother were out getting drunk, playing naughty and picking up a nasty collection of nervous breakdowns. This is a play that no drinking mother should miss...
Stevenson designed and cut the three woodcut plates to illustrate poems, which he had written to amuse his stepson, who owned a small printing press, and printed the verses with Stevenson's illustrations. Two of these books are shown, with the titles. "Lawks! What a Beautiful Flower," and "Moral Emblems...
...appear that Mr. Boyd is trying to jazz up his critical reputation by mere wanton attacks upon the traditional esteem in which such worthies as Milton, Dickens and Poe are held. He merely points out that to the sane man the theme of "Paradise Lost" is so much moral and cosmic spinach, and that since Milton selected this subject because it was what he regarded as literal truth, not fiction, the poem, for all its beauties, smacks somewhat of futility, as must any thesis as devoid of any slightest biological probability. Mr. Boyd merely remarks that Poe's reputation...