Word: virtuous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mildred Dunn, pretty, 21-year-old Chicago divorcée, is either the most virtuous, the most ingenious, the most devilishly coy or the most imaginative woman to appear in a law court in many a day. Last week, to an astonished Chicago court, she testified in her sister's divorce case that last year she had frustrated her brother-in-law, a radio engineer, in almost 200 attempts to rape...
...belief that the voice of the people is the Voice of God-has hardened into a dogma, which in his heart, he no longer believes. What he believes is that Virtue was always in the minority.' " The next step would be a police state to enforce the virtuous minority's will oh the unvirtuous majority...
Robespierre never took that step. In keeping the minority virtuous, he had purged so many revolutionary bigwigs that the little wigs, in self-defense decided to purge him. On the 9th Thermidor (July 27, 1794), his comrades outlawed Robespierre, seized and bound him. The fallen dictator lay on the floor of the Commune, his jaw shattered by a poorly aimed bullet...
Elizabeth Canning, a virtuous serving wench, vanished into the labyrinthine London night on New Year's, 1753. Four weeks later she reappeared, bloodstained, gaunt with hunger, clad in rags. Before Magistrate Henry Fielding she told a tale which might have been sliced from his own Tom Jones. She claimed that she was seized by two ruffians, robbed, dragged to a bawdyhouse where a gypsy hag with a nightmare face ripped her stays (value: 10/) from her, locked her up in the loft. There Elizabeth languished until she escaped through a boarded window. The gypsy crone was tried before...
...instance where defense has ever won anything? If there are not enough examples in current history of offenders being the winners, turn through the pages of all past history and find more than a few isolated examples of defenders ever winning a war. Defense begets inferiority. However virtuous it may be, it certainly does not work out in practical warfare. We should not be the defenders of democracy but the crusaders of freedom; by this I mean we should go out and seek the enemy...