Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...making this offer, the Government expressly stated that it recognized only its moral and not its legal responsibility. The bill provides that those investors who have held bonds since 1920 or before are to receive 5% interest on the new issue and the Government is to redeem annually $6,250,000 of the converted loan at par. Those subscribers who are practically destitute are to receive a "social rental" (apparently a small annual repayment of principal in addition to interest) of 2% of their holdings, in no case to exceed a total of $150 per annum, the annual...
...Madame Tussaud's wax works. Light musical entertainment was soon added and in 1843 the first play was produced. The gentry scorned the theatres of the time and it was not until 1844 that 'nice people' could be persuaded to attend. They were lured inside the doors by that moral production, 'The Drunkard, or, The Fallen Saved'. After that moral productions followed thick and fast, the most famous being 'Ten Nights in a Bar Room...
...apparent triviality, the moral argument against it is extremely important, whereas hand-organs and old begging women are the ephemeral and trifling evils of every society. The wiser men pass these young beggars scornfully by, push them meaningly out of the way; or stop sometimes to tell them just what little gamins they are to beg in the street. But there are many who are thoughtless enough to encourage their efforts with an extra coin, for back they come in every growing numbers to plead for what they have no right to expect. Not only is this becoming an extreme...
...pride ourselves on the fact that a moral can be very profitably extracted from our undignified departure from serious journalism in yesterday's issue. The old adage concerning not believing all one hears was nicely illustrated. Further, more, such unwarranted generosity and unexpected benevolence on the part of the Powers That Be places a severe strain on one's credulity even if the particular article had been read in toto...
...Bliven will speak of the moral code under which he worked as Managing Editor of the New York Globe. He has served his connection with daily newspapers and is now one of the editors of the New Republic...