Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prize-winners are like the modest hotels in Baedeker -'well spoken of: " American "hustle"? "George [Washington] did not run around like a mouse in oxygen as the modern American does." Sex in literature ? "When Linnaeus first wrote on the fertilization of plants, botany was denounced as corrupting to morals. . . . If a man holds up a mirror to your nature and shows you that it needs washing-not white-washing-it is no use breaking the mirror. Go for soap and water." Alleged pro-Germanism in Wartime ? "The Germans eagerly quoted me to show that the moral case against them...
...have become interested in the growing craze for burlesque, a craze which took New York by storm. Burlesque, under this popularity, is being improved in theatrical and moral quality. The greatest rage is the negro burlesque...
...machinations of the Department of Justice, is soliciting the nation at large for funds. Although this appeal probably will not meet a very great material response from American undergraduates for reasons which reflect not at all on the worth of the cause, it deserves at least their sympathy and moral support...
...Fifth Commandment of the Mosaic Code is not the only one which is not enforced by law in the U. S.: Enforcement by law of Nos. I and I would be unconstitutional. Legal treatment of Nos. Ill and IV is recommended by Blue Law societies. No. X has only moral support. Nos. VI to IX, inclusive, are enforced by law, with the partial exception...
...Thousands of Harvard students attribute to Professor Norton's influence lasting improvements in their modes of thought, their intellectual and moral interests, and their ideas of genuine success and true happiness," said President Eliot in a tribute to Professor Norton on his eightieth birthday. "His work in the University and his training for it were both unique, and are not likely to be paralleled in the future...