Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue of TIME, Aug. 16, under heading, Hygienic, Moral, the following: "At the city of Mantua, famed citadel of sturdy Etruscans, the local Fascist Prefect issued a well pondered order last week: 'For the remainder of the present summer all males in the Province of Mantua are forbidden to dance in public. This order has been promulgated for hygiene and moral reasons...
...Pennsylvania primary and the $1,000,000 Illinois primary. . . . "Both primaries show that our opponents have no scruples about buying an election. Pepper and Vare in Pennsylvania and Smith in Illinois make Newberry a figure to be canonized as a martyr of a party of great moral ideas." 2) Governmental expenditures have increased under President Coolidge and "every substantial reduction of taxes
...pedestal of the statue of William Tell, which stands in the Pare de Montbenon. My appearance must have been terrible during those terrible moments, for the people who came to inspect the monument scrutinized me with suspicion, almost with alarm. Oh! if De Dominicis had come to preach his moral lessons tome there how gladly I would have laid him out! . . . "I have received your
...year . . . Nothing much had changed. Once more sunset powdered with golden dust the Cathedral Square of Salzburg; once more the monks looked down from their barred windows; once more, on a bare plank stage, God, the Father, in false hair delivered the speech that begins "the morall playe of Everyman." To be sure, the present prelate, Ignace Rieder, together with his Abbot, Peter Klotz, were more godly churchmen than their somewhat ribald predecessors; to be sure the waiting burgesses were mostly U. S. visitors; to be sure the play presented for their entertainment was a version modernized by Hugo...
...well. . . . They sing William Jennings Bryan's Last Fight, The Convict and the Rose, The Wreck of the Shenandoah, Little Mary Thagan -and many another sad story. All the tunes are alike, never departing from the few chords within reach of the unschooled accompanist. Every tale has its moral lesson. In the Bryan song, the singer warns: If you want to go to Heaven, When your time on earth is through, You must be as Mr. Bryan, You will fail unless you do. The villain that brings little Mary Thagan to her "fatal doom" is made an object...