Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prohibition film matter was settled satisfactorily when the promoters of the film admitted their fault and agreed to make a correction. It was a film called Deliverance, a moral romance meant to advertise among Y. M. C. A. men the stirring statistics of Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist and Dry propagandist. The script had called for a picture of Governor Smith signing a bill. The producer had clipped a newsreel "shot" of Governor Smith signing a tax-reduction bill and then implied by subtitles that the bill shown was the repealer to New York's Prohibition enforcement...
...Hartwell observed tersely: that he had made an extended search for a substitute aviatrix to fly the green and red Bellanca, but in vain; that he expected half of the Rasche publicity profits and a position as her manager; that he would not release her unless "any act of moral turpitude should injure her reputation...
...problems of the next four years are more than economic. In a profound sense, they are moral and spiritual. This convention has sounded a note of moral leadership...
...elected by my fellow countrymen, I shall give the best within me to advance the moral and material welfare of all our people and uphold the traditions of the Republican party so effectively exemplified by Calvin Coolidge...
President Lowell offers as his suggestion for the preservation of the "undimmed moral sight" something of the sort, saying "we can judge our own conduct and motives as we would those of another." The advantages of acting in accordance with this standard, of holding steadfastly to the judgment of the conscience he sums up in the sentence, "just an exact analysis of self-deception, exact attempt in excuse conduct less than the best tends in so far to dull the vision so every action that is done because a clear light shows that it is the right thing...