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Finally, it should be recognized that professors are pious about motherhood as a strategy for challenging the equality of women as colleagues. Benito Rakowe...
...administration prosecuted the reporters who wrote the story for "illegally obtaining information and illegal possession of information." "Illegal possession of information": BC's pious masters, so outraged over "obscenity" in the columns of the Heights, should ponder the obscenity of such a charge...
Thus 15 months of repeated, detailed inquiry ended with only a pious wish. Robert White, president of Kent State, found Mitchell's decision acceptable. In Lorain, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schroeder, parents of one of the dead students, said bitterly: "Until now, we have had faith in our system of government." The four sets of parents also issued a joint statement. The decision not to convene a federal grand jury, they said, "is nearly as great a shock as that which came to us when our children were killed...
...glorious, pious and immortal memory of King William the Third, who saved us from Rogues and Roguery, Slaves and Slavery, Knaves and Knavery, Popes and Popery, from brass money and wooden shoes; and whoever denies this toast may he be slammed, crammed and jammed into the muzzle of the gun of Athlone and the gun fired into the Pope's belly, and the Pope into the Devil's belly, and the Devil into Hell, and the door locked and the key in an Orangeman's pocket; and may we never lack a brisk Protestant boy to kick...
What seems to have made that era so comfortable for vice, apart from the occasional luxury, was the old double standard, the neat if uncharitable belief that some women were just bad, and no real harm in that. But high-minded ministers and pious women soon assaulted this view with the fierce preachment that everyone must be good. By the early 1920s, after two generations of struggle, the reformers had won the official prohibition of commercial sex (and liquor as well...