Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small book in one case was printed on Lloyd Osborne's Toy hand press. Others were written by Stevenson and the wood blocks for the illustrations were carved by him. These are: "The Grover and Pen", with illustrations; "The Surprise", a small newspaper and the only copy known; "The Moral Emblems" with the advertisements for its sale; "Not I, and Other Poems"; "A Martial Elegy or Some Lead Soldiers"; "The Black Canyon"; "The Marguerite, Lawks what a Beautiful Flower"; and "Rob and Ben, or The Pirate and the Apothecary...
...point is well taken, but how to blink the fact that Elmer Gantry is of "outstanding interest for TIME readers," which is what THE CREAM seeks to include together with first-rate and consequential books? From the newsmagazine viewpoint events are "good" in proportion, not to their moral or aesthetic content, but their prominence in the contemporary scene...
...Author Ludwig comments: "In reality, the moral victory over his physique was his destruction ... it was but the prelude to countless parades and processions, resounding orations and menacing gestures ... all his life to seem what...
Finally revelations in the press by Editor Maximilian Harden compelled the Kaiser to repudiate his closest friends. Wilhelm declared: "It has come to my ears that Eulenburg, Hohenau, Kuno-Moltke [etc.] are perverts. I have no further use for them. This must be made a moral example of before all the world...
...theatres were nothing more than cabarets. The great contrast between then and now in this industry, as I see it, was instigated by an improvement in the show-houses themselves. With an increase in the quality of the theatre came naturally films of higher quality. Subjects of more elevating moral status were chosen; higher paid actors and actresses were employed; and the present highest class productions are the result. Today many of yesteryear's popular artists of the stage are now even more popular on the screen...