Word: virtuous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been indicted because of its alleged immortality. MERTON OF THE MOVIES-Through no will of his own, a movie-struck youth becomes a film comedian. The process is attended by no little disillusionment. _ RAIN-A spirited attack on the big stick missionary. Jeanne Eagel is the persecuted, somewhat unevenly virtuous instrument of the Rev. Davison's eventual fall. Realistic rain falls intermittently. SEVENTH HEAVEN-There is a tremendous moment when Helen Menken, as the submissive sister of an absinthe-soaked shrew, turns on her with a courage restored by love, and beats her with her own, whip. LOYALTIES - John...
Lowell Sherman is one of those villains whose very dressing gown exudes a purple and intoxicating charm. In his person the seething repressions of the timidly virtuous find a delighted escape. He is an inexhaustible well of vicarious...
This week France chose Mile. Henriette Saget as the most virtuous of all French women, but America will not be outdone in originality. At a great convention of canary birds in Chicago, the world's best warbler was elected. In the hope of finding a prize winner, the U. S. S. Pittsburgh made a trip to the canary islands, but the Marines found only dogs, so 'Baby Grand" won the prize...
...their opponents in times of peace, we may be sure that they will fall. We who support the old principles of the American government have to oppose not so much the active opposition of the avowed enemies of the country openly endeavoring to overthrow us as the work of virtuous but impractical and shortsighted individuals dazzled by particular events or maddened by particular wrongs...
...brought up properly. This is an outrageous doctrine." Yet one cannot help feeling that if all women dared as Mary Throgmorton dared, that if all had the courage she had, then the world need not worry as to the future of its children or its morals or its virtuous modesty. Mr. Thurston advocates no universal theor of free love--live, yes, and live fully, but to live one must be big enough, as was Mary Throgmorton, to count the cost and to find joy even in the sorrow and pain that go to make up the fullness of life. Only...