Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...success enough to recommend it very highly; and it is recommended with "the proposed reservations," reservations never very clearly understood. As for the League of Nations, all the high-sounding phrases at the close regarding our responsibility in giving the world a more practical use of "our moral power" do not dispel the questionableness of once more calling the League "a dead issue." Perhaps at present it is a dead issue to the public. But opinion may change. The uncertainty of the present state of public opinion, plus the President's unwillingness to create doubtful issues, have permeated the foreign...
...Light That Failed. Inspection of this picture can result only in a moral indictment against Kipling for releasing his noted novel to the cinema. Despite the selection of Jacqueline Logan and Percy Marmont for the leads, the picture misses fire. The wave of the author's emotion was spent in the transfer to pantomime...
...when he granted a mandamus petition to compel the city to issue a license for the proposed birth control clinic, theme of great agitation. Judge Fisher's decision contained these words: " I am loath to subscribe to the proposition that knowledge of birth preventive methods would materially lessen morality. If true, it would be sad to contemplate the weakness of our moral sense." The city will appeal. It contends that there are no non-injurious preventive methods. Some physicians testified to the contrary. The clinic project is supported by many wealthy and socially prominent persons. It will...
...should execute the dictates of the British laws in India which you are appointed to administer in which case I suggest, if I may, that your Lordship ponounce on me the highest punishment enjoined by the law for the crime of which I am held guilty, or if your moral scruples do not permit you to do as the law you are supposed to administer bids you, please vacate the chair and come over to join me in this stand. I know and understand the British laws and it so far as they are concerned of plead guilty'. Mr. Gandhi...
...local and temporal part that Mr. Gandhi has played he will go down in the history of the World as one of the great souls that has been born on this planet to express the will of providence, to demonstrate with all human firmness the truth of the eternal moral order, and to lay bare the guilt of man against man which in the outcome of sheer ignorance and moral degeneration...