Word: moral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally McKay questions whether America could contribute to a just peace. She could scarcely lend her moral weight while "war aims of the Allies continue in their present obscurity...
Stout, heavy-jawed, small-eyed Viscount Rothermere sat on a front bench at the justice's left while his attorneys, headed by tall, beak-nosed King's Counsel Sir William Jowitt, vigorously charged that the plaintiff had no moral right to bring into court as evidence confidential letters, some of which they say she took off her employer's desk without his knowledge. Counsel added feelingly that Lord Rothermere had no idea that she kept photostats of highly confidential material at any time...
...very long once Great Britain got in. Last week news of an extraordinary Triple Alliance-Lewis Carroll, Adolf Hitler and the British Broadcasting Corp. reached the U. S. Alice had become a wild satire called Adolf in Blunderland, a skit that ably combined entertainment value with rib-tickling, moral-upping, home propaganda value...
...conscious of their moral obligations are its editors that they publish no divorce actions, no slander suits, no suicides. Some years ago a member of the Argentine Cabinet killed himself, explaining in a note that because of political opposition he could no longer do what was best for the nation, no longer cared to live. Next day La Prensa simply said that he had "died suddenly...
...Forbach sticking out like a sore thumb. By last week the Germans had brought up hundreds of guns where they could shell Forbach from three sides, boxing it completely. To defend it would be costly in men and munitions. To surrender it would be to give Germany a keen moral victory as well as the practical advantage of getting Saarbrücken's coal mines and steel mills back into commission. With 150 German shells coming over daily to establish critical ranges, with German planes reconnoitering busily to discover France's intentions, Forbach promised this week to furnish...