Word: filially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everybody recognized the worn brown face beneath the worn black beret. As usual, there were a few discreet cheers. General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery was paying a filial visit to his father's old college, Cambridge's famed Trinity. His father, Henry Hutchinson Montgomery, had made a great name at Trinity as an athlete; he had been a militant Christian who became an athletic Bishop; at 70, bald, snow-bearded and retired, he still walked his 18 miles a day. Standing before the Tudor Gothic dining hall on one side of Nevile's Court, the General pointed...
...filial boast went round; it fell as a challenge on one pair of American ears. U.S. Army Sergeant Charles Russel, who claimed to have been quite a jumper at Waukesha (Wis.) High School, made several trial runs, leaped-and landed on the sixth step. Vince Dunne of the Royal Canadian Navy could get no higher than the fifth. One after another the Cambridge varsity jumpers flung themselves at the steps. The Bishop's record stood...
Confucianism places filial piety high among the cardinal virtues. Failure to produce a male descendant is the gravest of filial omissions. For 2,300 years men have avoided impiety by taking a concubine when a wife remains-childless or bears only daughters. If a man puts off the choosing of a "Little Star," friends may urge him delicately. Until the 1930s it was even thought a charming virtue in a wife to press a "Little Star" upon a husband who, at 40, had no sons...
...Cinderella. A good example of Wylie in action is his discussion of the American figments he calls mom and Cinderella. Says he: "Filial duty was recognized by many sorts of civilizations," and filial love and honor have normally been accorded those women who honestly earned it. "But I cannot think, offhand, of any civilization except ours in which an entire division of living men has been used, during wartime, or at any time, to spell out the word 'mom' on a drill field...
...thoroughly demoralized by the American example. Nevertheless the Filipinos have several characteristics in common with the Japanese. They are fairly pious. When they make money, they prepare magnificent, costly coffins for their parents, even while they are alive, thereby comforting their declining years. If we Japanese can develop Filipino filial piety in other directions, there is some hope that the Filipinos may become a decent people...