Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...require the Class C bonds unless her allies press their debt charges too hard, and therefore will reduce the total reparation charge to fifty billion gold marks. This is no more than enough to repair the damage which Germany herself caused in the war. No German can deny the moral obligation of Germany to pay this irreducible minimum, and if she would give up searching for possible means of quibbling and pledge herself to this amount, she would regain the confidence not only of all the allies but of the whole world...
Candidates for this service should be between the ages of 18 and 27 years at time of enrollment, High School graduates or College students of at least one year's training or its equivalent. Selections will be based upon the results shown by competitive examinations as to the mental, moral and physical fitness...
...that the vogue of any of the above-named gentry has entirely gone by. Tattered Tom, the bootblack, is still able to thrill adolescent readers as he helps the white-haired old gentleman across the street to receive in recompense a bright silver dollar and a great deal of moral advice. The athletic English striplings of Henty's confection continue to slay their thousands in every known historical period. But the last few years have only brought forth one writer with a true genius for the " children's story," Hugh Lofting, and he belongs rather with Lewis Carroll...
...Mass in D as the only possible disputant for the honor, which leads to the interesting and meaningful consideration that what is possibly the highest piece of Roman liturgical music was written by the devout Lutheran, Bach, who was capelmeister at St. Thomas' Evangelical Church in Leipzig! The moral seems to be that the Mass is so superb a musical form, such a tempting subject for the composer of music, that it quite transcends any points of doctrine...
...addition to two quotations from poems, the opinion closes with such moral observations as: " Though justice sometimes treads with leaden feet, if need be she strikes with an iron hand. Verily, the wages of sin are death and sin pays its wages"; as well as such grim humor as: " There is no error appearing in the record, except the great error of the defendant in murdering his wife...