Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make productions whose moral and artistic tone is enough above the average wanted, to be of some educational value" continued Mr. Hays, "yet not be so 'high brow' that they are unliked and consequently unpatronized Progress has been made but much remains to be done. The film companies cannot serve a vegetarian diet to people who want raw beef. In one of the largest theatres in Washington, Beau Brummel starring John Barrymore, lost $36,000. The following week "Flaming Youth netted...
...call your attention to the fact that when your department of RELIGION, TIME, Feb. 28, p. 22, explains the assertion that Christianity is "primarily a way of life" by the inserted note, "i. e. a moral code," it is far from doing justice to the persons quoted. They might without hesitation appeal to the New Testament itself, for when Jesus said, "I am the way . . no one cometh unto the Father but by me," He surely did not mean that He was a moral code. When Paul wrote, "It is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth...
...single mention of him. Wasn't the courage of this man during his lifetime, no matter what you may have thought of his views, a sufficient justification for at least a passing reference to him? Or is TIME'S measure of greatness financial rather than moral...
...from the time of the Apostles until recent years. But when public opinion changed it did not need the 18th Amendment, not withstanding the 14th, to enable a State to say that the business should end. What has happened to lotteries and wine might happen to theatres in some moral storm of the future...
...Miss Brady is one of the few actresses who can carry a play by her own individuality an ability. Playing in a quiet manner, much different from her hectic incoherence of "Bride Of The Lamb", she is splendid as one of the girls you forget to remember. The moral appears to be that husbands are a necessity and a girl can't remain respectable and unmarried