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Word: morals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, politician, prohibitor, stock speculator, lent moral but not financial support to his son Richard M. Cannon, on trial at Montrose, Calif., for failing to pay his teachers and for maintaining unsanitary conditions at his school ("Cannon Military Academy"). Enraged at being newsphoto-graphed outside the courthouse. Bishop Cannon grappled with cameramen, crying, "What right have you to take my picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...Gascoigne (1535-77) entitled A hnndreth Sundrie Floures bound up in one small Posie. Gathered Partely (by translation) in the fyne outlandish gardens of Euripides, Ovid, Petrarke, Ariosto and others; and partely by invention out of our own fruitful orchardes in Englande. Yielding Sundrie Savours of tragical, comical and moral discourse, bothe pleas-aunt and profitable, to the well smelling noses of learned Readers. The well-smelling nose of Sir Edward unearthed a hymn which seemed to him highly appropriate. Its last verse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Good Morrow! | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...laying themselves open to prosecution for bigamy. Of course the wayward husband eventually returns. In an attempt to blackmail Michael, who is by this time a prosperous novelist, the scoundrel's insolence leads to a scuffle and he falls dead of a heart attack. Still seeking the highest moral good, Michael and Mary decide to conceal the truth of the incident from the courts for their son's sake. A decade later, when Michael explains the whole history to the boy and informs him that he is a bastard, the boy offers not the slightest objection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...play reminds you how absorbing ethical problems may be, even when they arise among such pastel make-believes as Mr. Milne's characters. And though his answers are questionable, Mr. Milne knows how to dramatize his questions. The moral excitements are excellently stirred by Henry Hull and Edith Barrett, while Harry Beresford's vignette of a London bobby is beyond praise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...London Ben had his ups and downs: friends failed him, he got into near-scrapes over women. "Thus his moral renovation began. Like a good Bostonian, he gave moral lectures to others to cure himself." In 1726 he returned to Philadelphia, went to work in earnest. Soon he was a figure in the community: founded a club (the Junto), married, joined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: World Citizen | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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