Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make money. Arlie, of course, becomes very wise to the ways of the world, and "developes" as fast as the most hopeful novelist could ask. She runs away form her second husband and, in a fit of abstraction, nearly settles down to a third Not from moral motives--that would be too Victorian--but merely for her own selfish happiness, she at length decides to return to home and her legal mate. Thus the book ends in a commonplace as a sop to the censorious...
...book by Author Swinnerton. He has no Moral Purpose...
TARNISH-Telling in bitter terms how man blurs his life by compromise with moral standards...
...industries of the country, it is the business of the college man, who is trained to think, to see that modern conditions of employment are such that self respecting human beings may engage in industry without physical, moral, and mental destruction. The conduct of industry as well as the conduct of government must be in harmony with recognized principles of religion and morality...
Someone has been trying to hoax Manhattan, and, judging from the furious flood of contributions to the "World", he has succeeded admirably. A man who styles himself "A. K. Fill more, President of the League for the Uplift of Moral Virtue and the Suppression of Unwarranted Pleasure" managed to get that paper to print a letter advocating coffee-prohibition. "Brain-numbing and soui-destroying brew" he terms this fluid, and ends that inasmuch as the Bible does not state that coffee drinking is not a sin it "must be classed with other licentious habits". If Mark Twain were alive today...