Word: virtuous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bully. One of those throaty melodramas in which the ingenue is virtuous and the villain a fiend, came in with Christmas and will probably go out with the Old Year. Unwittingly, the virtuous child implicates herself in her master's villainies. Pearls-a great many pearls-are stolen. Emmett Corrigan, who should have known better, waded around in the shallows of the leading part. Several of the cast were almost criminally incompetent. The audience tittered...
President Coolidge is said to sit patiently by the vaults of the Treasury, watching the pennies, but his virtuous vigilance is at last rewarded from an unexpected quarter. A dime which he let drop unbeknown, has returned, but not to plague him. The grateful finder ate a hearty meal, went to work, probably as a street car conductor, for he says that he "now has many dimes". The accidental leavings of great men have a magical potency...
Rickets is a medical term for poverty?poverty of the bones. When the virtuous salts, retrieved by the body's chemistry from fruits and greens, course more slowly through the blood because of the languor of the heart in winter and the lack of sunlight, or are not present at all because fruits and greens have not been eaten, the bones are pinched with poverty. To make up for this, they swagger and falsely swell, while the sufferer falls off in flesh. The head becomes bulky; the barrel of the ribs warped; the sternum projects. Fever, sweating, temper, sensitiveness? that...
...language reformers have their way. Esperanto is to be introduced into the public schools of Hungary. All pupils will be given two lessons a week, and although they will not find similar large groups in other countries with which to correspond, they will undoubtebly derive a virtuous pleasure from the realization that they are equipped for international communication...
...pestilence and presently it invaded even editorial rooms. In almost every great American city some flabbergasted advertiser, his money in his hand, sweat pouring from him as if he had seen a ghost, was kicked out with spectacular ceremonies. All the principal papers, growing rich, began to grow independent, virtuous, even virginal. No - - - could dictate to them, God damn ! So free reading notices disappeared, salaries continued to climb and the liberated journalist, taking huge sniffs of free air, began to think of himself as a professional...