Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...associates of Senator Walsh are very improper investigators of any moral question. Jim Reed is a political skunk, and if he were dusted with asafetida it would perfume...
...Chairman: One hundred and fifteen years ago today Abraham Lincoln was born. To me the greatness of Lincoln consisted very largely of a vision by which he saw more clearly than the men of his time the moral relationship of things...
...face of the author's enthusiasm swaddled in legalistic conceptions Professor Murray's Attic sanity is most reassuring. The author is too enamoured of the grandiose conception and presumptive powers of a world state, not to mention the magnificently troubled legal waters that would lave its moral boundaries in which he would be so expert a pilot if not fisherman. Professor Murray points out that our feet are still on the ground and provides a sobering antidote to the effects of too literal an acceptance of Mr. Keen's personal convictions...
...frequently been said (TIME, Dec. 10) that the dream of Randall Davidson's life is "that the Church of England, so sane, so sensible, so rightly insistent on moral earnestness, shall become, with the growth of the British Commonwealth, the greatest of all Christian churches-more Catholic than Rome...
...believes that "eating has a specific social reaction." For example, the actor Charles Kean declared that when he was playing the part of a tyrant he ate pork; when he was playing a murderer, he ate beef, and when he was playing a martyr he ate mutton. The moral is clearly to avoid beef...