Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practical philosophy of life which Mr. Lowell imparted to the assembled product of Harvard College. It is summed up in his words, "We enjoy our work because we feel that it is worth doing, and it is worth doing because in some form it will endure. It has moral value that outlasts the hour when it is done and the man who does...
...knock a ball over the fence or kick it over the goal bar. I do that and I believe in it. I do, however, insist that no other organized joy has values comparable to the joys of the out-of-doors. We gain less from the other forms in moral stature, in renewed purpose in life, in kindness and in all the fishing beatitudes. We gain none of the constructive rejuvenating joy that comes from return to the solemnity, the calm and inspiration, of primitive nature. The joyous rush of the brook, the contemplation of the eternal flow...
...these days of confused and perplexing standards, social, moral, and artistic, the question is often asked and demands an answer--"What does he stand for?" Is the work of So and So on a fictitious and ephemeral basis, or has it a message of permanent vitality and worth? This question, however, can seldom be answered in the lifetime of the worker and still less frequently in that of the creative artist, it being an attribute of genius to be ahead of its own day and generation. Assuming that the chief works of Beethoven have stood the test of time, have...
Anti-vivisectionists argued that the moral danger to man from experimenting on animals in laboratories was greater than any medical danger that vivisection might avert...
...Jason Noble Pierce (President Coolidge's Congregational pastor in Washington, D. C.) was sued for $50,000 libel by one Howard T. Cole, U. S. Shipping Board engineer, who complained that Dr. Pierce had sent deacons to spy on his actions with young women, then charged him with moral turpitude in letters recommending his dismissal by the Shipping Board. Mr. Cole was not a member of Dr. Pierce's church...