Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have admitted the commission of a crime involving moral turpitude, namely, adultery. The law states that persons who admit the commission of a crime involving moral turpitude shall not be admitted to the United States...
...published a series of translations of the works of the great Greek philosopher which are the best translations in the English language and possibly the best in the world. Since 1902 Professor Ross has been a Fellow and Tutor of Oriel College, Oxford, and has been Deputy of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford since...
Even George Jean Nathan occasionally is correct. For when he suggested the admirable qualities of a play called "Morals", he was delightfully murmuring words of wisdom. "Morals" is an excellent play with an excellent moral--though an old one: judge not that no be not judged. And apt is the reading of, at least, the moral while America persists in presenting day after day in the pages of her newspapers such pseudo-ethicism as she has lately revealed...
...with no other turpitudinous soul on hand for the press to play with this colonel must face the inquisition, mother can point to the Marine post. And in some rustic hamlet some fonders and say to her son--"My boy, join the Marines and keep your morale clean." And in the vigor of his hypocrisy some preacher can halo another saint. For America in the glory of legalized morality has forgotten the spiritual depths as well as the heights which must be the experience of man. The rigors of reality cannot exist--they must be diluted by the discretion...
Undoubtedly, such publications are now unfortunately extreme. They cannot be defended in their gross descents into pornography. Though vulgar they are rarely vicious. The moral they ostensibly convey, however inartistic, is usually above reproach. Only a few which contain rehashed drummer's tales and ribald witticisms are coarse. The pseudo-art magazines despite their unmistakably sexual appeal may not be without some value in creating a whole some frankness...