Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From Baltimore, Md., came news that the Religious Society of Friends were alarmed over "vice conditions . . . widespread disease and moral degradation," to which they had heard U. S. sailors were exposed on the Yangtse Kiang (river), China. President Coolidge and Secretary of the Navy Wilbur were asked to investigate...
Before the book was published, John S. Sumner of Manhattan, professional moral crusader, had tried but failed to seize and suppress the printing plates. Local newspapers gave this episode routine mention, but most editors chose not to air the alleged love life of Warren Gamaliel Harding and the appeal based thereon. Henry Lewis Mencken touched on it in a distant, rambling article for the Baltimore Sun. The Democratic New York World treated it conventionally as biography, in a book review, with no front page headlines. The New Republic came closest to "featuring" the item. For the rest, there was what...
...national general election and cannot be fairly said to show a sentiment for a change of government, as local and not national issues are the primary considerations. On the other hand, it may reasonably be argued that an overwhelming loss by the Government party could be construed as a moral obligation upon the Cabinet to submit its position to the acid test of a general election; but no overwhelming loss occurred; the Liberals and Conservatives still hold the balance of power; the Laborites control the Municipal Council in only seven towns and their gains were made chiefly in the industrial...
...stand now in the position of a monarch whose crown is tottering. Last week was a bad one for me, but I'm man enough to take my beating without excuses--just as any Forecast would. I am giving Joe Jr. an example of huge moral courage, letting him learn anew the significance of the motto, or the Forecast coat-of-arms. We stood together in my library my hand on little Joe's shoulder; and I pointed to the famous Forecast crest--crossed shovels, a sitting bull couchant on a field gules argent, with the scutcheon emblazoned "Nimmermehr Alibi...
...have been maintained on a high level. We have gained in knowledge of the higher values of life. There has been advancement in our physical wellbeing. We have increased our desire for the things that minister to the mind and to the soul. We have raised the mental and moral standards of life...