Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Napoleon to have blown his brains out after his defeat by Wellington or for Davis to have done the same when Richmond fell. Brave men rarely question another's courage, particularly at such a moment as the downcrash of an empire. I have known many men of moral and physical courage-but none more personally chivalrous and brave than the now exiled Kaiser." Not content with this panegyric of Wilhelm II, Mr. Bigelow paused to eulogize the onetime Kaiser's grandsire, Wilhelm I: "He was a grand old monarch, that first Emperor William-Der Greise Kaiser...
...proprietary Crusoe stranded in a sea of syndicates. I verily believe that I am the only 'sole proprietor' of a newspaper in the whole Metropolitan area. . . . "Moreover let me say that the bill is chiefly an instrument of propaganda designed to persuade the world that Britons are moral by obscuring their immoralities . .. yet I do not object, My Lords. It is only fair that, if the peccadillos of the lowly are covered by the tattered garment of obscurity, the indiscretions of the great should be screened by the ample robe of law. For my part I honestly consider...
Among the January books, Professor Kuno Francke's "German After War Problems" is outstanding. Professor Francke's volume comments on the intellectual and moral revival of Germany since the war and gives an analysis of the forces which contributed to Germany's unexpectedly quick recovery since the war. Professor Francke's intimate insight into the German point of view has made this latest volume on post-war Germany particularly illuminating...
That the man who packs his bag with heavy books and notes there is no greater moral coward. To stoop to that ultimate degradation of deceiving one's own conscience, to carry books vacationing with one, not to be opened until the fine for lateness has reached appalling dimensions, is the last stage in the degeneration of a vagabond...
...repented for her pride and never married; of nymphs and dryads on spring breezes and in dreams; even of a mulatto making a bed. Nor was it surprising that he progressed from elderly solicitude to queasy warmth for Annabel Upchurch, Cordelia's impecunious niece, aged 23. Annabel had no moral sense but a heart. The heart had been cracked by her first lover. She had winged eyebrows, cherubic curves and, like the Blonde that Gentlemen Preferred, she loved presents. So they were married and a romantic comedy was wound up when she ran off with the next passing youth...