Word: immodest
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...superlatives do seem to be some-what more numerous than they would have been if President Eliot or President Lowell had issued the statements, but the circular is really not so immodest after all. It includes one "probably" and one "perhaps," and says nothing at all about the Bussey Institute, the graduate school of arts and sciences, the glass flowers, the recent gratifying football experience with Yale, and the permanent rustication of a young man who wafted a specimen of citrus fruit at Rudy. If this appeal does not make graduates loosen up, they have no sense of relative values...
This reference was to the famed Twelve Orders "on women's immodest fashion of dress" issued by authority of Pope Pius XI some months ago to higher Catholic clergy throughout the world. Order No. 1 declares that "the parish priest . . . should insist, argue, exhort and command that feminine garb be based on modesty and that their ornament be a defense of virtue." Order No. 5 states that "headmistresses and teachers must not receive in their colleges and schools immodestly dressed girls, and should not even make an exception for the mothers of their pupils." Order...
What actually constitutes "immodest fashion" the Twelve Orders leave to be construed by the local ordinaries of dioceses, as circumstances may require. Last week the new Archbishop of Paris vastly endeared himself to Frenchwomen by his construction. Short sleeves, low necks, short skirts (should they again come in) and the scanty bathing costumes still sanctioned by the French mode were apparently all covered by this statement from His Eminence...
Bishop of Derry, Ireland: "Dress [of young girls], which even outdoors is far from modest, in society and at balls and dances is positively immodest, suggestive and an open incentive to passion...
...from Archbishop Michael Curley of Baltimore, temperate, blunt. Said the Archbishop: A Catholic survey of 404 motion pictures showed this number of scenes-marital infidelity, 117; struggles of girls to defend honor, 113; divorce as remedy for marital ills, 38; drinking, 140; smoking by girls, 82; indecent dancing, 97; immodest dress, 172; undue sex familiarity, 192. The legislators, he summarized, "should get rid of smut on week days before transferring it to Sunday...