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Word: moralizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monday evening at 8 o'clock, also in Repertory Hall. "What Are the Moral Forces in Modern Life?" will be treated by three speakers: Dr. John Lovejoy Elliott and Alfred W. Martin both of New York, and Professor Kirsopp Lake of Harvard. Questions for them are "To what purpose is our material progress? How much and where are our moral and spiritual progress? How can we present the machines of western civilization being the masters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOSTON SOCIETY LISTS LAKE, MUZZEY FOR WEEKEND TALKS | 9/29/1928 | See Source »

...hardly conceivable that our progressive and essentially moral people will go back to a condition where we will be bone-dry in one State and souse-wet in another, and where churches and schools will elevate one city and gin mills degrade another. States' rights and local option would mean alcohol ad libitum and ad nauseam wherever the whiskey rings held political sway; and that is not a thing to be contemplated in any sort of a sincere temperance program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Hearst on Treason | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...acute analyses of scatter-brained complications of parents, quarrels among sophisticated children, well-bred war between their middle-aged bachelor guardian and the widow of his choice. Falling short of greatness, The Children is an eminently entertaining tragi-comedy of the times. Sinners will ignore, pharisees gloat upon a moral which is happily remote from the common reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: We Are Seven | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...champion, rugged, cigar-smoking Frank James Marshall had started well, but finished only seventh. José R. Capablanca, Cuban, former world's champion, took second money. Though his final score was less than Bogoljubow's, a moral victory was his, for he had defeated Bogoljubow in their only personal tilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Chess | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...Cleveland, last week, the Knights of Columbus involved themselves in deeds of political crime and bloodshed only so far as to ask the U. S. government to lend its "moral pressure and influence" in order to better the "unfortunate and distressing circumstances" of Catholics in Mexico. Also, as is often the case, they paraded and danced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Great & Fake Oath | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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