Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those Who Dance deals with the horrendous results of drinking illicit hooch made in the U. S. under the filthiest of conditions and tagged with some of the most expensive-looking foreign labels. But it is not a temperance lecture-its moral is put over too painlessly for that. Behind it is an occasionally effective melodramatic structure wherein a man of society, joining the Federal Prohibition forces because of the death of his sister, dons a disguise that would actually mislead the sharp-witted breed, the bootlegger, and succeeds in laying low Demon Rum. Blanche Sweet, Bessie Love and Warner...
...medium's "control" is her dead brother "Chester," who performs a great variety of activities, such as rapping, talking, juggling, whistling, singing, pinching, scratching, kissing, moving heavy objects, making visible clocks strike, playing victrolas, producing psychic photographs. No evidence of fraud was found, and the moral factors were all in favor of the medium, who has put every convenience at the disposal of the investigators. But elaborate objective tests are to be made by the scientists to preclude fraud or error...
Victory, decisive and well-earned, was Washington's, but the moral victory certainly belonged to Wisconsin, a green, untried crew, whose boat had not come out on the Hudson since 1914. It was a great victory for the West and a great defeat for the East, which could hardly have been more surprised at seeing green snow than it was at Wisconsin's feat...
...only 60 years since Lincoln was President. In that brief period our country has enjoyed the greatest moral and material welfare in all history. This has been brought about largely under Republican rule...
...keeping with his real qualities I shall make no effort to exalt him, for he does not need it. . . About this man there is something elemental. . . . He has moral fibre. . . . With him there is no compromise. . . Frugality is a part of his being. . . To him, life is work. . . In the largest sense of the word he is a patient man. . . No one can throw him into a panic, for he sees life steadily and sees it whole. . . Has he a sense of humor? Emphatically...