Word: uplifts
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...giving their time to having their neighbors' children, while their own children are left to shift for themselves and do as they please. "What we need is to get back to the simplicity of the oldfashioned, truly American family circle, and to stop a lot of this uplift gush, this indiscriminate spending of money in social and charity and welfare work. In short, while welfare clubs, organizations and societies are meeting, conferring and resoluting, the home and fireside, the bulwark of good citizenship, is left in charge of the cat and canary. "Can we wonder that our children...
...pleasure, will our youth yet give themselves because this music and this singing frees they know not what quickening within them. In such devotion will a musician, a man, a leader, of Dr. Davison's temper, pursue such endless and exacting toil. Nobody calls it art, nobody names it uplift. Everybody fights shy of such shamming. Self-expression and release are the better words--with Brahms of the Requiem for channel and Dr. Davison for steersman...
...word "wine", so objectionable to sensitive souls of today, has been changed to "raisin-cake" in a new Bible published by Charles Scribner's Sons. To further the good work of Scriptural regeneration, the Uplift Societies must now get busy upon certain other errata in the texts which, though not so demoralizing as the wine passages, are nevertheless capable of improvement. Joseph's narrow escape from Mrs. Potiphar, for example, might be changed--indeed must be changed to read as follows...
...advise that the courses at this institution be arranged first with special reference to the training of preachers, teachers, lawyers and physicians, because these are most in the public eye and by precept and example can do most to uplift mankind. And, second, to instruction in chemistry, economics and history, especially the lives of the great earth, because I believe that such subjects will most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom and promote human happiness...
...Women's Christian Temperance Union in national convention at Chicago comes out strongly in favor of the "great American uplift." Since Volstead, this triumphant organization has taken the whole field of public morals for its own. There is not a crime, from smoking of "the foul and filthy weed" to the waging of war, which it does not now consider its legitimate "meat...