Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cuba during the rebellion against Spain as a war correspondent. Spain in Cuba seemed to him a model of all that Imperial rule should not be: irresponsible, wasteful, harsh, above all vindictive and vengeful. In India too he pondered (meanwhile playing polo, serving on the frontier, reading Gibbon, moral philosophy, history and military strategy) and after writing The River War, a description of the Sudan campaign, and a terrible novel, decided to take up literature and politics. Informing the voters of Oldham, he was rejected. He promptly left for the Boer War as a newspaper correspondent. Captured, while defending...
Confusing moral which uplifted youngsters might deduct from this camel's tale was: Never be bumptious but never fail to be bumptious when you ought to be. Chances seemed even that many a young reader, stifling a yawn and an out-of-step feeling that Author Boyle's camel was not only a dromedary but an allegory, and too consciously cute, would leave the book where their less jaded elders would be sure to find and enjoy...
Vigorously pursuing Moral Re-Armament on the West Coast, MRA's Leader Frank Buchman made his most striking conquest to date-the "changing" of curvesome Mae West. Witnesses: Miss...
West's pressagent, a photographer. Posed in her Hollywood apartment, Cinemactress West and Leader Buchman smiled happily, swapped compliments. Beamed Mae, billowy in pink negligee: "It is a wonderful work. ... I owe all my success to the kind of thinking Moral Re-Armament is." Gallantly responded Dr. Buchman: "You are a splendid character, Miss West. You have done wonderful work...
Popular knowledge of Mormons centres on their practice of "celestial marriage," better known as polygamy. Author Fisher makes it plain that the storm over Mormon polygamy was raised by something less pure than moral indignation...