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Page 57
... called lessons of moral truths ? Are we really arriving at something or are we merely jumping off into space and meantime losing the very quality that of entertainment — which gives the theatre its raison d'etre ? Just one or two more ...
... called lessons of moral truths ? Are we really arriving at something or are we merely jumping off into space and meantime losing the very quality that of entertainment — which gives the theatre its raison d'etre ? Just one or two more ...
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... them ? Whatever they are doing , I believe it has come to a place where a halt must be called : a halt that need not mean a final cessation of these plays ; but which should be a pause The Present - Day Theatre and the Sex Problem 59.
... them ? Whatever they are doing , I believe it has come to a place where a halt must be called : a halt that need not mean a final cessation of these plays ; but which should be a pause The Present - Day Theatre and the Sex Problem 59.
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... called " Hindle Wakes , ” not styled a sex play , deals with the sex question in a way perhaps that it had never been touched before . It shows the sordid side of factory life in middle England and we are surprised , as the parents are ...
... called " Hindle Wakes , ” not styled a sex play , deals with the sex question in a way perhaps that it had never been touched before . It shows the sordid side of factory life in middle England and we are surprised , as the parents are ...
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... called " Where Are You Going To " -by Elizabeth Robbins . * It touched only on white slavery at the latter part of the book , but the effect of read- ing that book was terrific . What was omitted stirred as profoundly as what was told ...
... called " Where Are You Going To " -by Elizabeth Robbins . * It touched only on white slavery at the latter part of the book , but the effect of read- ing that book was terrific . What was omitted stirred as profoundly as what was told ...
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... called me on the ' phone and told me of his find — a “ moral purpose " photo play dealing with the white slave traffic . He must have gathered that I was not particularly delighted , for he added " This is the real Rockefeller stuff ...
... called me on the ' phone and told me of his find — a “ moral purpose " photo play dealing with the white slave traffic . He must have gathered that I was not particularly delighted , for he added " This is the real Rockefeller stuff ...
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Page 78 - Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 90 - I would say that it hopes to be instrumental in promoting these similar lines of work throughout the United States, and seeks to become a general clearing-house for the special campaign against venereal diseases and those degrading practices which largely owe their prevalence to ignorance of the important part which the sex principle plays in the life of the nation as well as of the individual. Its officers believe that this battle must enlist both the medical and moral forces of the country ; that...
Page 85 - Association shall be to acquire and diffuse knowledge of the established principles and practices and of any new methods, which promote or give assurance of promoting, social health ; to advocate the highest standards of private and public morality; to suppress commercialized vice, to organize the defense of the community by every available means...
Page 86 - ... charge and command all Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, Constables, and all other officers within this province, that they take due care that all the laws made and provided for the suppressing of vice and encouraging of religion and virtue, particularly the observation of the Lord's day, be duly put in execution, as they will answer the contrary at their peril. "Given under the seal of said province this eighth day of April, Anno Dom.
Page 54 - Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline, think on these things.
Page 50 - Edition), p. 212. educated man; but if by education is meant a "systematic development and cultivation of the normal powers of intellect, feeling, and conduct so as to render them efficient in some particular form of living, or for life in general," then, indeed, Lincoln was an educated man in the truest and best sense of the term.
Page 79 - ... destruction of commerce in vice, and the prevention of venereal contagions, should all be carried on plainly, but delicately, without exaggeration or morbid suggestion, without interference with parental rights or religious convictions, and in general in a pure, high-minded, disinterested way.
Page 81 - They are contact-borne, but unlike tuberculosis, which is also a contact disease, they are so closely limited to immediate contact, and so largely spread through the contact involved in sex relations that they may properly be called sex-contact diseases. The fact that venereal diseases are essentially sex-borne constitutes the scientific basis for organizing a special association, distinct even from the National Tuberculosis Association. This latter organization, although fighting a contact disease,...
Page 82 - ... diseases are essentially sex-borne constitutes the scientific basis for organizing a special association, distinct even from the National Tuberculosis Association. This latter organization, although fighting a contact disease, is striving for nourishing food, sunlight and fresh air, sanitary houses, proper balance between work and rest — above all for the effective destruction of sputum and the prevention of prolonged intimate association of the tuberculous sick with the well. None of these...
Page 86 - God and of one another, that by the religious and virtuous carriage and behaviour of every one in his respective station and calling, all heats and animosities and dissensions may vanish, and the blessing of Almighty God accompany our honest and lawful endeavours, and that we may join our affections in the true support of his majesty's government over us, who has so often and so generously exposed his royal person to iminent dangers to...