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Word: moralizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blithe trip into musical entertainment, the Harvard Dramatic Club faces the necessity of immediately reiterating its policy of producing honest dramas heretofore unseen in America, and wisely choses a little known play by a well-known playwright for its fall production. Milne is safe; he raises no over-serious moral issues--although it is hoped that "Success" may drive a few additional nails into the coffin of American Babbitry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "SUCCESS" IS PLEASANT BUT NOT REMARKABLE | 12/11/1929 | See Source »

...Unemployment James Henry ("Privy Seal Jim") Thomas had challengingly declared: "It is against the nation's interests for women to work for what they call 'pin money' and thus deprive other people of their legitimate work and livelihood. . . . Legislation cannot cure this evil. It is a question of moral responsibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...Exchequer Philip Snowden without Cabinet authority, and possibly without knowing what he was doing. Right Honorable Tom blandly remarked that holders of British War Bonds are receiving too high a rate of interest: "They are getting $500,000,000 a year to which they have not the slightest moral right! . . . That is a fact that has got to be faced before this country can be put on its feet again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...generally efficient library administration might solve its problem by a careful system of checking up on books returned, and thus entirely remove the premium it has set on laziness, dishonesty, and mental and moral inertia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIBRARY SYSTEM | 12/4/1929 | See Source »

...prayer book's prohibition refers to "church" in the sense of "congregation" and would not apply to the loan of a building. Though he tactfully yielded to the bishop's "official admonition," Dr. Reiland felt his legal position was as good as his bishop's; his moral position better. The communion service was shifted to the chapel of Union Theological Seminary; the other sessions of the league were held at St. George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Brothers in Christ | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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