Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...What are male citizens of the province of Mantua, Italy, forbidden to do for moral and hygienic reasons...
...London firm of Furness Withy & Co. to purchase the White Star Line for more than ?6,000,000 because the transfer of such a sum to the White Star Line's U. S. owners might have depressed the pound in relation to the dollar. Pointing the moral, Lord Beaverbrook concluded: "The idea of enforcing the return to the gold standard was that we should be able to buy on equal terms in America...
...birds of heaven, none is more moral than the stork. Monogamy is his rule and practice. Year in and year out he cleaves to the original wife of his pouted bosom, rearing family after family with her in their first and only love-nest on some Dutchman's rooftree or in the cornice of a South European villa. So faithful and contented is the admirable stork, indeed, that he was long ago judged fit to represent the mysterious agency that brings the patter of tiny feet to human abodes. Pet storks are commonly named "Cato," after the eminent Stoic...
President Ella Alexander Boole of the National W. C. T. U officially declared last week that "we cannot compromise" on Sunday openings of the Sesquicentennial Exposition at Philadelphia. She withdrew" the W. C. T. U. exhibits and moral support. The Exposition already had lost the moral support of Presbyterians, Methodists and Lutherans...