Word: virtuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the man who will be crowned on May 12 may not have the "charm" of Edward Windsor, he promises to be as duty-bound and soundly virtuous as George V, one of whose homely maxims was "Teach me never to cry for the moon nor over split milk." Growing up under the careful eye of her grandmother, the heiress-presumptive promises to become a woman well equipped to be a second Queen Elizabeth. Such material for the throne, coupled with the fact that Premier Baldwin's government seems to have sharpened its democratic mace against Bolshevik and Fascist competition...
Harvard has more at stake than mere athletic prestige. As one of the last strongholds of amateurism among the large universities, it must vindicate the stand it has taken. Like the virgin at Winter Carnival, Harvard must prove that one can be virtuous and get away with it. The atmosphere is right for success. Since his arrival last fall Coach Harlow has inspired respect and confidence. The student body has refused to see in a series of defeats any permanent omen. This season the Boston newspapers have been very considerate, especially for Boston newspapers. There is every hope that...
Mayor Bryan followed them and again the couple got no beer. Irked, the woman cried: "You are ruining my reputation!" Snapped virtuous Mayor Bryan: "A woman who lets a drunken man hug her for two blocks on a sultry afternoon is putting her reputation at stake...
Since Lytton Strachey published his Queen Victoria 15 years ago, that classic portrait of a just and virtuous monarch, first Empress of India, devoted wife and inconsolable widow, has scarcely been challenged by biographers. Readers might feel that Strachey had not told them all that was to be said about Victoria, but they were likely to be convinced, upon finishing his book, that he had told them about all they wanted to hear. In the shadow of that disadvantage Edith Sitwell last week offered a balanced, well-rounded-study of the Queen that included little new information about her, much...
Cassandra-like, Jefferson could sometimes read the future: "I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be any vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe." Shays's Rebellion did not horrify Jefferson nearly so much as it did Washington, Said he: "I like a little rebellion now & then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere...