Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...citizens of Greenville, South Carolina, think that the new statue of Apollo Belvedere recently added to their museum is not quite the right thing. Not that reasons of art have led to this verdict; on the contrary, disapproval is based on moral grounds, for the single drapery hanging from the god's carven shoulder is looked upon as far too scanty a covering, and measures are to be taken to clothe the statue more completely...
...perform an abortion, rebukes Aunt Conover, suggests that Doris and Jack get married. It is meanwhile discovered that Jack is really the son of Aunt Conover by an Irish father. So, after inordinate weeping, there is a jolly Irish ending with marriage in the offing and with the moral that, after all. "motherhood is God's greatest gift to humanity." Her Unborn Child may run another ten days or ten months, depending on how well Manhattan women like to leave the theatre with wet handkerchiefs. Elisha Cooke Jr., in the comedy role, was better than his lines...
...transformation of Senator Walsh from a granitic moral asset of his party to an actual candidate was a William Gibbs McAdooing. Ever since he magnanimously withdrew his own name, for the alleged sake of party harmony, it has rankled with Mr. McAdoo that Candidate Smith did not do likewise. Mr. McAdoo is so Dry that he has sworn he would do almost anything to make Candidate Smith bite the dust: "I don't care what happens to me but-." What better agent for this purpose could Mr. McAdoo have found than a Dry and a Catholic whose prestige began...
...twitter, last week, over Dawn, the furiously contested cinemastory of the life & execution of Edith Cavell (TIME, Feb. 20). At the nub of controversy jutted the fact that Great Britain has been "muddling through" without a legal system of film censorship. Therefore, last week, the interplay of moral suasion was untrammeled and magnificently British. Some felt, and some did not, that to project the story of Nurse Cavell once more upon the world would be to revive War mentality at its worst and embitter Anglo-German relations. Loud, therefore, were twitterers and twitterings...
...Americanism;" "The Moral Leper;" "The Devil's Boomerang" (for men only); "Chickens Come Home to Roost" (for men only); "What Shall the End Be?;" "Nuts for Skeptics to Crack" (anti-evolution...