Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intend that the moral slur cast in the direction of Fascismo by the Aventine deputies shall be discussed immediately. Since our present session has been dedicated to a memorial service to Queen Margherita, I move that a special sitting to discuss the Aventine situation be convoked tomorrow...
...luckily--or unluckily, depending on one's philosophy--the suicide failed. So she lives to point the moral to a new version of an old story. And the readers of many a paper throughout the country are going to tune in for the future on more cheerful subjects. Since as yet the radio maintains the doctrine which the lady now expounds...
...attempt of the Germans to rehash wartime bitterness is not altogether prompted by the desire for moral vindication. If they could prove themselves innocent, the whole basis of the Versailles treaty would fall through. As a sop to Wilsonian idealism, Germany was forced to pay reparations and give up colonies not as the price of defeat but as punishment for starting...
...since childhood the minds of college men have been poisoned against the Bible by those very people who most believed in it. They have held it up as a good holy book filled with deep moral lessons. They have advertised it in a way certain to fill any normal boy with the bitterest loathing. Soft handed ministers have spoken of it in hushed, strained voices, Sunday school teachers have branded its messages among the unpleasant memories in the minds of their young disciples. Its simple, powerful legends have been darkened by the smoke of wordy sermons, while the listeners watched...
...deny most emphatically the moral and ethical right of these gentlemen to jeopardize so ruthlessly the progress of New York and a great and necessary industry such as building and construction. The effects of the utterances of these gentlemen, by reason of their high and dignified positions in the financial world, are more to be feared by the community in which we live than the utterances of Bolshevists. I say Bolshevists because the statements referred to are fundamentally destructive and carry possibilities of grave disaster to the progress of our city and to the nation...