Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the War. "In the reaction from wartime exaltation the moral power of the nation suffered little diminution." Heavy taxes were borne courageously. Three times taxes have been reduced, "saving the nation between $6,000,000 and $7,000,000 each day." The national debt will have been reduced by one-third next June. "The saving in interest alone is about $1,000,000 for each...
Foreign Loans. "We are more concerned than ever with our foreign affairs. The wealth of our people is going out in a constant stream of record dimensions for restoration and development in all parts of the world. We want our moral, influence to be on the side of liberty, of education, of fair elections and of honest constitutional government...
...about a lady who descended upon a French chateau to see her old lover and her child by him. Soon she found the child affianced to a neighbor's son, also her child. It is carefully explained that save for these two slips the lady has been strictly moral, and the purpose of the play is to decide which of these two lovers she shall marry. This decision is reached after three acts of light but languid conversation. Too bad it is the play lags, for the performance is immensely satisfactory. Resplendent in hoops and ruffles, Billie Burke returns...
...British Royal Household and to Edward of Wales,* last week testified that birth control was an excellent thing. Said he: "To ask this generation to go back to the helter-skelter method of having families is like crying for the moon." He could find no evidence of physical or moral harm from the practice of birth control, nor did he have any respect for "gloomy forebodings as to the break-up of family life...
...candidate for a fellowship must be a citizen of the United States; must at the time of making the application be a graduate of a college of recognized standing or of a professional school requiring three years of study for a degree; must be of good moral character and intellectual ability; and must have a practical ability to use French books, both in general subjects and in his own special field. In the absence of an absolute rule as to age, preference will in all cases be given to candidates between the ages of 20 and 30 years...