Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time to time, the Keith vaudeville circuit cleaned its houses. From orchestras and balconies were swept gum wrappers, cigaret butts, hairpins, miscellaneous and refuse. From stages were swept all manner of objectionable "gags" and "business." In other words, a Keith bureau whose duty it is to keep Keith shows moral-reverent-safe sent out a censorship manifesto prohibiting certain remarks and actions made by Keith vaudevillians. These were listed in Variety, slangy theatrical trade weekly. Sample "gags" prohibited...
...reline the athletic pocket. There were numerous small college teams which came down from the hills, engaged an equal number of big college teams, and returned with little except a considerably enlarged bank balance. The best that they could have hoped for was that rather unsatisfactory conclusion, the "moral victory". A brief perusal of the scores in the Sunday papers shows that few of them even achieved such heights as that...
Bates comes here with little more than the hope of gaining a moral victory. When, the Pine Tree State eleven last played in the Stadium in 1919, they were downed by a 53 to 0 count. This year's team is now hard hit by injuries. Three first-string backfield players are out of commission owing to injuries incurred in last Saturday's clash with the Massachusetts Aggies, and until then Coach Dave Morley had hoped to give Harvard a good day's work...
Once again the clarions of the moral purists are sounded in the already tired cars of the country as works by Balzac. Rabelais, Rousseau, Boccaccio, and many others, on route to a Cambridge book store are declared to be of an "obscene nature" and kept from entering the country by the New York Customs House officials...
...teaching birth control and that is the possibility of its leading to sexual promiscuity. But that argument grows weaker daily, for men and women are daily growing more promiscuous anyway." The American Birth Control League has called for a first national conference on birth control, "to consider its social, moral, religious, economic and legal aspects." Place: Manhattan. Time...