Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dissipate in some degree the "moral and social fog" occasioned by loose thinking, the "Forum" has announced a definition contest to clarify such toil-worn terms of elastic meaning as "Americanism", "progress", "tolerance", and "propaganda". Although it would be impossible to cage all the connotations of a word or to halt its manipulation by argumentative proponents of social doctrine. It may still be possible to establish the mainspring of its sense and to relate its varied uses there...
...certain localities, and to a certain extent everywhere, this condition obtained and caused the downfall of the world's faith in the Youth Movement. Freedom and frankness between the sexes resulted in an unfortunate towering of moral standards when the thing to be hoped for was an elevation and clarification of those same standards. Many conventional standards set by previous generations are hypocritical, and in breaking away from them, other and better standards should be set and maintained. From the countless articles on the younger generation which I have read in every sort of periodical I should judge that...
...this, resolved: that the shop windows of Cambridge, and Harvard Square in particular, are devoid of charm for these ladies who must spend hours looking at them awaiting their escorts. And anyone can easily see how very reasonable is our plea. We do not make it on religious or moral or intellectual grounds but simply on those of sympathy and understanding. Suppose, my friend, that you had to spend long moments in the cold and slush of Cambridge waiting for your chance to eat and dance and that you tried to find entertainment in a shop window only to discover...
...Then there had better be no more parades," blurts the old soldier. But there are more parades, of that kind. Tietjens' integrity sees him through and furthers a movement (for the "single command") that is to turn the War's tide. Tietjens comes out of a moral Gehenna victorious...
...grandfather and Aunt Lucy (sister-in-law of Poet Rosetti). Exposed from childhood to Fabianism, anarchism, aestheticism, etc., etc., he affects Toryism to annoy his relatives but looks "red" to the bourgeoisie. A Catholic, he sustains his family's reputation for heterodoxy by believing the Pope fallible, divorce moral. His friend, Edward Garnett, once came where Ford, in William Morris garb, drank country mead from a bullock's horn. Garnett had a basket of manuscript and Ford assisted in selecting for publication Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad. Joseph Conrad, A Personal Remembrance and Some Do Not are his most...