Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having got into their chamber, the Senators invited the Representatives to come and meet there too. Governor Johnston blocked this move with his guardsmen. Back to the Huckins Hotel went the irate Representatives, to add "moral turpitude" to their list of Governor Johnston's crimes. Specifically, he was supposed to have conferred with Mrs. Hammonds, his secretary, in a hotel bedroom after 2 a. m. one morning. Also to have lived with his wife in a two-family house of which Mrs. Hammonds and her husband occupied half...
...allowed himself just a shade more licence in this respect. But the writer at least will not quarrel with him. With admirable good nature he has attempted to be all things to all men. The Puritan is given, in the ballad of Sir Brazen-pants, a story with a moral; the classical scholar cannot fall to derive satisfaction from the Christmas Version of "Times Danaos": while all must be stimulated by an entirely new and hither to unpublished drawing of the Widener Library. Prospective philanthropists may learn much from a well-escented study in benevolence...
...Everywhere, except in the moral realm, people know that they cannot successfully let themselves go or do as they please." The idea that it is the law of life to let an instinct like the sex instinct go was scoffed at by Mr. Fosdick. "Take the instinct of pugnacity," he said, "which is very deep in us. Well go out from this house now, get nearly run over by a car loose your temper, beat up the driver, batter in his head. How will you explain yourself to the judge tomorrow morning? Will you say, 'Your Honor...
...real conception of and attitude towards his position in the universe, his religion, and other fundamental matters are of more solid interest to the college student of today than they were 20 years ago. People used to be more formal but thy seldom had a real interest in moral and intellectual matters. In time the tide will turn again and religious organizations will develop rapidly...
...example of what I mean is the printing in your last issue of a statement about birth control by the doctor who attends the British Royal Family.* If he "can find no evidence of physical or moral harm from the practice of birth control," then I have indeed been misinformed, and I intend to seek out the facts. I had thought that even a knowledge of this subject was in the nature of a "taint," but as a loyal citizen of the British Empire I have confidence that the example of the Royal Family is ever uplifting, never the reverse...