Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President vetoed the Bonus Bill, condemning it from the standpoints of economic wisdom and moral principle. (See Page...
...well by Lewis Stone, Helme Chadwick and Mary Carr that at times it suggests Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle. Mr. Hopwood has again used to advantage his favorite device of bringing an estranged husband and wife together in a quarantined house, and for once the obvious tag moral is so well put that it arouses mirth rather than wrath...
...taste in literature; the history of music and musicians; psychology in graded lessons; poetry-the very best, but what people really do like, not what they should like from the standpoint of a technician or a modernist ... a university course in training for parenthood, which shall include the mental, moral and physical education of children from earliest infancy through the high school age, to be supplemented by graded reading courses and required theses...
...alike as possessing one of the genuinely distinguished and brilliant philosophic minds of the day"-and immediately after the war he was released from prison and reinstated in his fellowship. Again speaking of Russell's nature. Wesley C. Mitchell points out, Bertrand Russell possesses extraordinary courage. He has the moral intensity of a martyr, the intellectual confidence of a great logician, and the calm assurance of an English aristocrat." His experiences with human nature in its least tolerant mood during the war as one of an insignificant and most unpopular minority have not made him more steadfast in his purpose...
Nicholas Murray Butler,* college president in politics, made a speech on the thesis: Prohibition is not a moral issue but the prohibition law is a moral issue. Much discussion resulted, but the speech was the thing. Extracts...