Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shell invites war because Standard of N. Y. buys oil from Russia. Russian oil on the Indian market competes closely with Rumanian oil shipped there by Shell. Shell refuses to buy Russian oil on moral grounds, saying that the Soviet Government's confiscation of oil properties in Russia was thievery. Placards have been posted in Shell offices: "We do not sell stolen...
...Hoyden Royden"; others, baffled by her direct and vigorous speech, took refuge in expressions of fluffy indignation. On the day after her arrival, Agnes Maude Royden gave a lecture at a Manhattan branch of the Young Women's Christian Association. Said Preacher Royden, referring to the distinction between the moral codes for male and female: "We shall see worse things before better. ... In the end we shall evolve a stable and permanent relation between men and women for the creation of children. ..." Of cigarets, Miss Royden ambiguously remarked that if a woman found that she could not exist without them...
Continuing his talk on the theatre he said. "There has been a great deal of talk about the decline of the moral standing of the stage, but this is largely because of the increased number of sensational plays that is being produced, and is one would only talk the time to look around he would find that an equal number of dramas are being played that are still as fine as those written years ago. It has always been my policy to put on shows to which anyone might take his wife and children and not feel that anything immoral...
...military training, and will now build each year five cruisers of the type most effective for modern naval combat, to prepare herself for war with England or Japan. These factors being taken into consideration, a suggestion from the United States that war be stopped merely by the assumption of moral responsibility was not the thing to make foreign politicians chortle with delight. And when one realizes that unless the Constitution, is amended, that document alone makes illegal any higher check on the power of the President and Congress to make war, the situation seems rather hopeless...
...London (TIME, May 23), even though Sir William later admitted that the police did not find the "stolen State papers" which they were supposed to be seeking. At present, the Secretary of State for India, the Earl of Birkenhead, is drawing heavily on Mr. Baldwin's impeccable moral credit in the matter of a commission which will go to India next year and report upon what elements of greater freedom should be extended to Indians. When the Earl of Birkenhead himself tried to explain why not one single Indian will sit on this commission his logic lacked conviction...