Word: virtuous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greeting to M. Caillaux, became angry, excited and somewhat defiant as the rejection of the initial French debt proposals became known. Phrases flew: "France bloodless, the U. S. stuffed with food . . . refuse to discuss the Mellon memorandum . . . Frenchmen slaves for 62 years ... the feudal U. S. mentality . . . 'virtuous' President Coolidge ... if M. Caillaux must return without an agreement all parties will approve...
...open spaces lured East and left with the acute fish-out-of-water feeling in the midst of what is called Society is not new. To strengthen it, the product and the girl who lured him are visited by the stork. The girl has a suspicious cough and a virtuous sister. The Westerner becomes a sturdy Congressman. You can figure out what happens for yourself. If you can't, don't bother to attend. The mystery isn't worth...
...thought The Prisoner of Zenda a great picture, there is a bad disappointment in store. This picture is made on the same lines and has Alice Terry and Lewis Stone for stars. They are King and Queen of a mythical principality on the Adriatic. He drinks and she is virtuous. He drinks so determinedly that revolution rids the country of his services. Then there is counterrevolution and, all of a sudden, he decides to make sense. But they have become used to the simple life in exile and abdicate. Miss Terry is still pretty, but not so pretty...
CANDIDA-One of Shaw's earliest and best, featuring Katherine Cornell, becomes a leading popular as well as artistic success. SHE HAD TO KNOW-Grace George discovers in a delightfully amusing manner whether or not a woman can be too virtuous or too attractive. Is ZAT So?-A prizefight parable takes place in a Fifth Avenue home. Terribly tough and terribly funny. THE GUARDSMAN-Suave and sentient comedy of home life among the actors played perfectly by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. THE FIREBRAND-Benvenuto Cellini indulges in some medieval bedroom ri- baldries. THE SHOW-OFF-Large talk...
...World, James Kirkwood is invariably solemn and virtuous. He wins his woman. Usually he is an outdoor soul with all the calm irresistibility of a brooding oak. He grows, in the present instance, in Africa. Beside him grows his cousin, a dope fiend and a very unpleasant individual. Out comes the girl, in love with the latter. Suicides, hypnotism and a flood are employed to solve the somewhat reminiscent situation. Mr. Kirkwood plays a double part of the hero and the bum. Anna Q. Nilsson is the girl...