Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debt Commissioners refused to allow a transfer of Belgian War borrowings to Germany. They declared that President Wilson's "promise" was not legally bound but that "nevertheless. . . . .there does continue a weighty moral obligation as a result of assurances given which differentiate this sum from all other debts due the U. S. from foreign countries." So it was agreed in compromise that Belgium should be bound to pay the principal of the $171,780,000 War borrowings over a period of 62 years, beginning with $1,000,000 in 1926, and scaling up to $2,900,000 beginning...
...porch of the Goat and Compasses; Rose Jorden talking furtively with some man through a hedge; old Mrs. Dunk, the charwoman, pottering about the graveyard; plump-breasted Sally Dunk, flirting boldly in the lane. Of an evening you hear the local males talking at the inn, Crome's moral centre. By night, the sleeping selves of the villagers come drifting, roaming, crying about the gusty square. In that ghostly company, the public fronts are removed from secret hopes and hungers. Old mortality scoffs and the Crome-dwellers compromise with their morrows as they...
Positive Elements: Graceful, dignified, modest, gentle, cultured, efficient speaker (pleasing, clear, mellow voice), refined language, jolly, sociable, congenial, cooperative, loyal, teachable, forgiving, hearty eater, thrifty, careful in business matters, optimist, religious, reverent, prayerful, devout, spiritual, pure-minded, faithful in religious observance, Bible student, good moral and religious influence, patriotic...
Negative Elements: Lame, immodest, sensitive, faulty in grammar, slangy, critical, argumentative, sarcastic, pessimistic, irreligious, irreverent, poor moral influence, no public spirit...
...that "no gifts, donations or subsidies shall in the future be accepted by or on the behalf of the University of Wisconsin from any incorporated educational endowments or organizations of like character." Though Regent Daniel H. Grady, framer of the resolution, pointed out that his colleagues "had no moral right to accept money from the Rockefeller Institution in view of the spending by the Standard Oil Co. of $2,770 for lobbying in the last session of the [state] legislature," he did not persuade his colleagues to make the resolution retroactive to the medical research money, $5,000 of which...