Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leave me my American films. Don't let us shut down the only stream of moral influence coming into this country...
...better is the English system, under which the plays are censored before they are produced, not afterwards. The Crown appoints a Lord Chamberlain, and all prospective productions are submitted to him. Lord Cromer now holds the position. He reads all the plays and censors them not only from a moral, but from an artistic point of view. No free publicity is given to shows which have parts expurgated nor to those from which the permission of production is withheld. True, the position is a difficult one, and the man who holds it must be well chosen. Yet these disadvantages...
...centuries the very slow progress of morality through processes of natural evolution has proved a constant reproach to the more virtuous and earnest members of the human race. Law, persecution, and reform have all been tried as experiments for forcing people, to measure up to the proper moral standards, but have alike proved failures in the attempt at wholesale elevation of human morality...
...Crystal loosened my tight little moral cloak to an unshackling wind and pinned it back with something as hard and bright and impersonal as a star...
...section on Goodness, the author does not fall to include the familiar distribe on the passion in America for proyphylactic cleanliness. It is not extraordinary that our land of prohibitions both legal and moral, provides tantalizing stimulus for any sensitive observer, be he yokel or diplomat, foreigner or native wit. In this portion of the book alone does the author play the game he has chosen for though fairry adroit satire pinch-hits for the more rugged sincerity which any critical work presupposes he nevertheless concludes his observations in more commendable fashion than he approached his unfamiliar subject...