Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drains had not been properly tended, that practically nothing had been spent for maintenance, which should be some $67,000 per year. He showed that the rarest marbles are expected to chip when turned for columns, that clever repairs are common, not criminal. He stressed the Goodhue integrity, moral and esthetic, which attended the project. Weighty also was other defense evidence. It seemed altogether likely that the report to the legislature would strongly favor the defendants. Architect Goodhue studied all styles. He mastered traditional Gothic only to depart from it in a magical Goodhue Gothic. Finally, so strongly...
...contact with the awful depravity of Europe and its statesmen. Mr. Baker's film story is, in short, the oldest in the world. It is nothing less and nothing more than the conflict between good and evil, between spiritual conceptions and material appetites, between generosity and greed, between moral earnestness and underhand intrigue, between human sympathy and callous selfishness." Mr. Churchill also grills the whole U. S.: "The American populace fell as far short of their Chief in disinterested generosity to the world, as the peoples of the Allied countries exceeded their own leaders in severity to the enemy...
Master Mind Chiang. The moral victory which rendered battle needless, last week, should be credited almost entirely to Chiang Kaishek, victorious marshal and astute Chinese President...
...which were dotted nine large Cheney residences and a half dozen smaller Cheney houses. They saw a large expanse of Cheney-owned silk mills and warehouses. They saw block on block of Cheney-built employes' houses. But they saw no Cheney-built churches, for the Cheneys, though exceedingly moral, are no pillars of the church...
...schools, has chronic and clonic law-violators, a student-built gymnasium was erected. Last week, in Worcester, Mass., Clark University's Dr. Vernon Jones (psychologist) revealed a new method of teaching sound citizenship to future citizens. The plan: to confront elementary school students with a problem requiring a moral judgment, to let the students, unaided, make their judgment. Dr. Jones relates a story such as: "When he was a child, the late great Labor Leader Samuel Gompers and his small cousin had to carry milk pails from the dairy to their farmhouse home. One day, the two boys quarreled...