Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Regarding the moral problems of a surgeon he said: "We immediately come face to face with situations and circumstances which rarely subject the souls of men to more trying ordeals than those which assail the honest surgeon. Every day by his counsel, by a mere word, or even by a gesture, he may stand as an arbiter be tween the life or death of one of his fellows. . . . Lives of infants, who are on the threshold of life and in whom are centred the hopes and happiness of their parents, of women, young women, especially, who appeal most touchingly...
...announce to the world this truth: The Fascist revolution comes from the moral patrimony of the Italian people and will make Italy great...
...girls, as Duty's very priestess, she was approached last winter by exceedingly ironic Biographer Thomas Beer. In The Mauve Decade he tore aside her veils of sentiment and revealed a harried housekeeper with bone-aches and a lounging father, most scornfully scribbling out what she herself called "moral pap for the young," to make ends meet. He showed that she herself read the racy French and Russian novels of her day; that she was gaunt, dowdy, with a deep tinge of cynicism. At the same time, he noted the fact that she was indefatigable; that she sewed...
...Greeks recognized the need of some temporary escape of the human soul from the homely bounds of every day," he continued, "and in their theatre, in their great tumultuous plays that searched deep into the spirit of man, they provided this. A great moral lesson might be taught in a Greek play, but it was purely secondary, and was borne home to the mind only after long and careful consideration of the action. The feature of the Attic drama was its power of lifting the human soul out of itself, and causing the mind in a contemplation of spiritualities mightier...
...found that due to her husband's socialistic turn of mind, she could get no nearer New York than Ellis Island. Saklatvaia, the unpronounceable Communist member of the British Parliament, was likewise debarred. And another Countess--in her own eyes more sinned against than sinning--discovered that on occasion moral turpitude could be made an admirable slogan for immigration authorities. The latest guest unwelcome to official United States is Mme. Alexandra Kollantay, whose morals may be as pure as snow but whose politics are not a accordance with those of the Republican administration. In spite of the fact that...