Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clarence Darrow, that brilliant criminal lawyer who specializes in lost hopes, has recently been accused of moral cowardice by his best advertised adversary; yet he did not hesitate to tell a large audience of Detroit negroes that their race has really very little to complain about. Slavery he said dispassionately, had been a good thing for them. It had given them a chance at civilization long before their time, and whatever troubles they might encounter are the price they must pay for the value of premature contact with something better than their primitive condition in Africa...
...interview Rear Admiral Billard disposed shortly of the constitutional and moral sides of the prohibition question, and then devoted his time to recounting briefly the history of the United States Coast Guard...
...several years after she has grown cold. She is married to a prosperous farmer when the call comes to return for just one evening to the old life. Diamonds and champagne and gypsy music stifle the stolid virtues of the prosperous granary. The trip is, however, accomplished without immoderate-moral mishap, and her only difficulty is in explaining to her husband the next morning the presence of two gay dogs who have brought the cafe band to play under her rural windows as the sun comes...
...there does not exist a strong and vigorous determination on the part of the people to observe the law. . . . Mr. Coolidge concluded with the words: "It is only by a constant renewal and extension of our faith, that we can expect to enlarge and improve the moral and spiritual life of the nation. Without that faith all that we have of an enlightened civilization cannot endure...
...fight for every yard that we made, and while the score shows our superiority on the offense, it does by no means show a moral let-down among the Harvard players. I have never, seen a beaten team fight more courageously than Harvard did today...