Word: virtuese
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life With Mother (based on Clarence Day's stories by Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse; produced by Oscar Serlin) is not only the sequel but just about the equal of Life With Father. Both have the same cheerful, superficial virtues; if Life With Mother seems more contrived, it also seems...
The purpose of West Point, therefore, is not to act as a glorified drill sergeant, but to lay the foundation upon which a career in growth of military knowledge can be based, and to accompany it by two indispensable additions; first, such a general education as educated men find necessary...
Away for a Score. Carolina folks were mighty proud that Choo Choo, in this age of interstate commerce in footballers, was a native North Carolinian. Prosperous alumni, who pour about $100,000 yearly into a football fund, convinced him of the virtues of staying at home. Like many football heroes...
The work lists the offenses that insects are guilty of (they eat man's crops and belongings; they carry diseases; they buzz and they bite). But to catalogue their virtues, Hyslop uses more than twice as much space. For man's benefit and pleasure, he points out, insects...
Making Americans. When he dedicated Stepinac High last fortnight, Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York, who is U.S. Catholicism's most influential leader, wove into his speech every overtone of the Catholic parochial system. In his first sentence he called the school "the full embodiment of the great and...