Word: virtuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virtuous Colonel General Göring also rises daily at 7 a. m. and takes a cold shower. In case the No. 2 Nazi seems depressed, his valet finds he can always prick up General Göring by putting on the phonograph the Heroes March from Wagner's Götterdämmerung...
...once a foundry, seated on 65 folding chairs, the audience applauded a modern version of an old story of incest and parricide. The same story, dramatized by Sophocles and called Oedipus Rex, moved an audience in Athens over 2,300 years ago. Sophocles' tale of the great and virtuous king, who learns within one tense hour that he is unwittingly guilty of two hideous crimes, has never been surpassed for suspense and horror, is considered one of the world's neatest jobs of play construction. In The Infernal Machine Playwright Cocteau has kept Sophocles' characters in their...
Playing at Washington's Capitol Theater, famed good-looking Mimic Sheila Barrett included in her repertoire the well-known caricature of a virtuous Southern girl starting out for a big night in Manhattan, winding up drunk in a night club. After Miss Barrett had played the bit for five days, a lady member of the Georgian Society protested that the impersonation was "not a true picture of Southern women." Miss Barrett was promptly ordered to remove the bit from her act. She agreed: "I'm here to entertain people, not embarrass them...
...Governor "Jim" Ferguson. They refused to take oil promotion advertising during the Burkburnett, Ranger, Eastland and East Texas booms. Last week, seven days after the Legislature outlawed all forms of race-track betting in Texas, Publisher Dealey, now 77, again placed his papers in the position of doing the virtuous thing at the risk of losing readers. Announced he: "The Dallas News and the Dallas Journal, believing that anti-racing legislation expresses the will of the people of the State, have discontinued publication of racing charts, selections and results of horse racing. Space heretofore devoted to turf activities will...
...filling station proprietor who would not sell, Father Coughlin has been sticking to religion lately. When asked to comment on the fact that he had a new superior, succeeding the late, well-meaning Bishop Michael James Gallagher of Detroit (TIME, Feb. 1), Father Coughlin was polite and virtuous. "I am highly pleased," said he. "I will fall in line exactly with any expressed suggestion of Archbishop Mooney...