Word: virtuous
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Reader M. Whitney Lee, in his virtuous haste, has missed the entire point, which is that the democratic system which permits (but does not force) him to praise his legislators, also impartially allows Al Capp to poke fun at them...
...neither must we fall into the illusion that the foe alone is responsible for the fears and that we are merely virtuous defenders of a great cause, beset by scoundrels. There must be a dimension of faith in which, whatever our loyalties and however justified our defense of them, we recognize the tragic character of the human drama, including the particular drama of our own day, and call upon the mercy of God to redeem us not from the predicament of democracy but from the human predicament...
...your outfit have been ordered to Heaven as part of an all-out Allied Offensive against the Devil. You're going to meet a people who like Americans and whom you will like. The Angels have much in common with us; they are virtuous, peace-loving, God-fearing people, and they're out to lick the Devil...
Winchell himself was off on a six-weeks' vacation. In Manhattan, Jack Lait, editor of Hearst's Mirror, filled in for his hired hand, but wanted it known that the ground rules were different when he played. At a column's end, he tacked a virtuous "Notice to many well-meaning informers:" this column, under this byline, does NOT publish obstetrical information, ever...
During the shooting of a thing called Virtuous Wives, a silent little man prowled about, peering at everything. Nobody seemed to know who he was, or why. When the picture was finished, the little man approached Hedda and thanked her handsomely for all she had done for the show. "That's very nice," said Hedda, in her rather imperial way, "but who are you?" "I'm Louis Mayer. I'm the producer, and this is my first picture. And," he added respectfully, "I know everything that's gone...