Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Temperance Union, busy in an international conference at Indianapolis did not open their mail for three days. When they did, they were excited. There was a letter from President Hoover, in which he regretted too great reliance on the Prohibition law to enforce abstinence, urged extended education in the moral, physical, economic benefits of temperance...
...between a lobby in favor of ship building companies and one carried on indirectly by some foreign power against the upbuilding of our merchant marine, I see no moral difference and condemn each...
Curiously illogical is the influence of morals and manners on the fortunes of musical and theatrical folk. Jenny Lind owed her popularity as much to her reputation for spotlessness as to her nightingale voice. But Lily Langtry, the Jersey beauty, was just as successful despite her intimacies, which every one knew, with Edward VII and others. Moral protests arise where least expected. Last week in England Soprano Florence Austral, 35, was banned from the Three Choirs Festival* to be held in Worcester Cathedral because her past included a divorce case. The objections came publicly from the Very Reverend William Moore...
...ranks. A progressive society must follow Napoleon's maxim of "careers open to talent." But accumulating experience confirms the policy of the school. There flows thence a stream of young men who carry from the school into the business world professional standards, a genuine respect for the intellectual and moral requirements of modern business and a continuing thirst and capacity for knowledge. These are the subalterns whom experience fashions into commanders. These are the men who have made themselves fit to learn and improve the art and science of business management...
...Love (Sovkino). Only the apparent conviction of Russian film directors that no picture is complete unless it points a political moral in support of the existing Russian government-a conviction dictated to them by forces outside their craft-spoils the effect of this good story. Emma Zessarskaya plays a peasant woman who has a love affair with an Austrian prisoner working in Russian fields. As long as the conflict remains a private one between her independent ideas and the standards of her neighbors, the picture is worthwhile, believable. Before it ends the Austrian, a practical, unimaginative fellow up to that...