Word: virtuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prince's wealth left to one of his sons. Brightest of Marjorie Bowen's witty characterizations is that of Louis Philippe, son of Egalite who during the revolution had voted for his own cousin's execution. Educated according to the principles of Rousseau, prudent, embarrassingly virtuous, Louis Philippe played a despicable game. Prince de Condé detested him for his democratic affectations, which included carrying a humble and unnecessary umbrella. Irresolute as he was, the Prince was determined never to leave his wealth to a son of Louis Philippe. Louis then agreed to get Sophie restored...
...Russia hopes that the female Intourist guide assigned him by the State will prove to have the easy morals he has heard about. Among these Soviet young women themselves, the Leningrad guides gossip incessantly about the Moscow guides and vice versa, each group claiming to be the more virtuous. Once iron Soviet discipline barred guides from accepting tips in any form but this order has now been relaxed, and for months the girls have been openly angling for tips. Last week came Intourist's first wide-open scandal, impossible to gloss over since it concerned not a nondescript tourist...
...countless U. S. cities marriageable teachers currently find themselves in the same fix as Rita Coates. Last week the National Association of Women Lawyers, meeting in Los Angeles, was at pains to appear solicitous in revealing that teachers less virtuous than Rita Coates find solutions less virtuous than hers. According to President Percilla Lawyer Randolph of the Women Lawyers, it is common practice for a teacher to divorce her husband, keep on living with him. By working fast a teacher can go through marriage and divorce before her school board gets around to dismissing her. Said Felice Cohn, Nevada...
...Madmen Virtuous. "The relative scarcity of wholehearted rascals and hearty sinners" among the insane impressed Dr. John Clare Whitehorn of Waverley, Mass...
...newest edition of the Harvard Lampoon, which out-Esquires that noble men's magazine and carries its burlesque to great lengths, has been adjudged unfit for the gaze of virtuous Bostonese. So the metropolitan censors have it banned as indecent from Boston newsstands...