Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fascism has frequently indulged in pyropolitics to its moral discredit, it has at least vindicated itself on the practical side of its policies...
...this change has advanced is uncertain, but that it is making giant strides is certain. The literature of the sophisticates has a very strong vogue. A certain moral squeamishness and affectation has disappeared: facts, rather than romantic fallacies, govern youth's outlook more and more. This generation has looked into the past and not the good men, but those who have seen life in its completeness. And today youth, with "A Professor" in its ranks, looks beneath the respected traditions of conduct, and tries to see life whole...
This abominable crime shook the whole Union of South Africa. The farmer was charged with homicide, tried, sentenced to only six months' imprisonment. The moral deduced was that there are two kinds of justice in the Union, one for the white man, one for the black man. Incensed were the Negroes...
...conspicuous way of showing that they can afford to waste money. There are other signs with which we are also familiar. No English public school can now compete with some American Universities in their enthusiasm for sport, and they are only following our English lead when they discover moral reasons for sacrificing the upper-class youth of the country to the unit of athletics. Most significant of all, however, is the growth among a small section in some Universities of a leisured attitude to learning. Business America still demands a business education, but the new gentlemanly class, having made...
...withdraw what appears to have been a deliberate affront and befouling of his own nest, a discrediting of his constituency, he will have to withdraw the vital parts of his address, in which he charged himself and his colleagues with deliberately committing crimes against the Government and violating moral as well as political principles...