Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arriving on the foreign-mission field, the new worker finds himself or herself in a totally foreign moral environment with a radically divergent system of sexual and personal ethics, which he or she is usually not prepared to combat. The possibilities for the stimulation and gratification of the sexual side of the psychic Occidental are more numerous in the Orient, and the continual flaunting of the erotic makes its impression on the unstable personality. If he evades it, it callouses his nature; if he succumbs to its wiles, it erodes him. In either case he may be thrown into...
...GOBBLER OF GOD-Percy MacKaye -Longmans Green ($2.00). In prose, this folktale might well have been a catalog of horrors, but Southern mountaineers' dialect done into cadenced free verse makes of it a fascinating fable, moral and all. With three wedding presents-a silver ring, a goose feather pillow, and a little black slave for luckpenny-MacKnight rides over the hills from Ca'liny to claim proud Margery, his bride. This copper-haired beauty has eight brothers who kill the little black slave for her dance orgies with the Gobbler. Luckpenny dead, MacKnight and his delectable bride...
...declared Stolypin, "mumbled mysterious and inarticulate words from the Scriptures, made strange movements with his hands, and I began to feel an indescribable loathing for this vermin sitting opposite me. Still I did realize that the man possessed great hypnotic power, which was beginning to produce a fairly strong moral impression on me. ... I was able to pull myself together...
...inefficient, disloyal, peevish, erratic, eccentric. Perhaps they were harsh, misinformed. For, last week, Vanderbilt IV, honest, put his signature to a document pledging more than $1,000,000 of his inheritance to repay stockholders of his dead tabloids. Said he: "I am giving up my heritage purely as a moral obligation. Legally, I no longer have any debts, but I wish to wipe the slate clean...
Weeping, Fraulein Rasche considered the horrors of moral turpitude. But Mrs. Stillman reassured her: "Now, don't you worry. I have had lots of court experience. Everything will come out all right...