Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...working on the stage dont' care so much about the activities of the censors as the people who come to see us. When the newspapers are full of stories about champagne baths and moral turpitude dragged on the stage everyone crowds to the theatre to see what it's all about. The censors make the boxoffice receipts pile up and so we never object to them and sometimes are glad to see them, not that we do see them as a rule. If a show gets the wrong kind of publicity oftentimes nothing but a few censors hastily called...
...spark ignites the tinder. Two hundred and fifty-one times in the past year, by actual count, the immigration section of the Department of Labor had denied admission to the U. S. to persons ineligible according to law -to persons who admitted having committed a crime or misdemeanor involving "moral turpitude."* On the 252nd time the tinder went up in lurid flames...
...other cabin passengers, she was sans ceremony inclosed on Ellis Island. A board gave her a hearing and decided she must be deported. U. S. courts had held that adultery is a crime. She admitted what is at least equivalent to adultery. The officials opined that adultery involves moral turpitude. She appealed to Secretary of Labor James J. Davis. He granted the appeal, considered for several days, and decided he had no choice under the law but to deport her. She then went to court through her attorneys and succeeded in postponing her deportation...
Meantime a number of things had happened. She asked, "What about the Earl?" and U. S. women echoed the cry: "What! A double standard?" It was not a case of double standard. The immigration officials simply had not discovered that he was guilty of moral turpitude. He was questioned in Manhattan, was quite open about what had taken place five years back. Next morning a warrant was issued for his arrest, but by that time he was in Montreal. The Countess indicated that the Earl was a craven; she was not going to leave the U. S., even if only...
...morrow after the polling, the Captain cried: "I consider that the moral victory rests with...