Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...David Ames Well prize with his first book "The Economic Causes of Modern War", John Bakeless has now written another remarkable work on international politics. The Great War produced, of course, an enormous literature. During the past years several hundred books have been published dealing with the economic, moral, political and cultural consequences of the war and searching out the way on which humanity is moving toward an unknown fate. The subject of Mr. Bakeless' book is not at all new; but his conception and methods are excellent and distinguish this book from many other recently published works on such...
...this little prophylactic frolic was but the outer representation of any inner ill. For a long time this Watch and Ward Society, among whose inactive members are some of the more esteemed citizens of the city, has played guardian to the people, established their moral code. And that code, being the expression of the active and more bigoted members, has been both a rule of ignorance and a law of pettiness. When any urban group submits to the ethical dicta of a prejudiced and demi-intelligent minority, that group has lost whatever claim to progressive decency it ever possessed...
...have spoken tonight entirely from a material standpoint, not because I feel that America owes no moral obligation to assist other peoples to work their way out of the wreckage of war. We do, and we will carry out this duty...
...livin' with a red-headed Jewess in Paris while his morganatic wife sues him for 10 million francs and his real wife is Princess Helen of Greece, should ought to be allowed in an American garage. I'll say his name is 'Morry Turp'! Moral Turpitude is right...
...James Bissett Pratt, Mark Hopkins Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at Williams College, will give the Hyde Lecture on Foreign Missions at 2.30 o'clock on April 7, in Andover Chapel. His subject will be "The Problem of Christian Missions in Buldhist Sands...