Word: virtuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senators and Representatives last week felt comparatively virtuous. Other Congresses generally provided their members with topics for investigation which necessitated junkets to Alaska, Europe and other desirable summer resorts. But members of the 73rd Congress are staying within the U. S. to tend their political fences so that next January they may find themselves members of the 74th legislative & inquisitorial Congress...
...Henry VIII" the scholar complained that political significance was abandoned for the more intimate personal relationships of the great, the personalities of the present film are presented in a fashion that ably combines the human interest with the political. But just as Maxwell Anderson recently gave a more virtuous character to the heroine of his "Mary of Scotland" than history allows, so has Elizabeth Bergnor's Catherine been blessed with an unbelievable holiness of purpose, that is inconsistent with even her eighteenth-century enlightened despotism. There is no point in begrudging the historical dramatist his literary liberties, for "Catherine...
...Ghent's and Belgium's pride, lost only partial glory in 1816 when two panels were sold to Prussia. By the Treaty of Versailles these two were returned to Ghent. But last week there were only eleven in all. Gone was the 54-by-22-inch The Virtuous Judges (red and blue-cloaked riders backgrounded by crags and castles) and the grey John the Baptist painted on the other side. Because where once hung the panel in the Flemish galleries of the Berlin Museum there was tacked a placard reading, TAKEN FROM GERMANY BY THE VERSAILLES TREATY...
Jesus, put your arms around New York. Hug her to death, Lord. . . . Is New York going to Heaven? Is she going to pray? To be sober? True? Virtuous...
...hire a doctor. The shock of almost being had by her father on the night after her abortion (a rape is only a rape, they say, but this somehow seems a little more) is too much, and she dies with her penitent pater and no less penitent though virtuous mater at her bedside, resolving to tell their next daughter what's what before it's too late. The fade-out is a sweetly murmured "Daddy... It seemed like such a beautiful road...but it was only..." The slimy scoundrel who debauched her is presumably out wreaking his lustful will...