Word: virtuous
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Although Saint Paul claimed that charity was the greatest of all virtues, such a wise man as he would never approve of providing charity where it did not belong. Encouraging people, most of whom are human waste, to make their living by panhandling is not virtuous; indeed, it is destructive and therefore evil. In view of the Harvard man's sophistication and supposed intelligence, it is ridiculous that he be regarded by professional beggars in this neighborhood as being the biggest sucker. Will you begin your career here by becoming the dupe of trained sympathy-provokers...
Last week a woman named Marie Petitjean Becker, a 58-year-old widow with crisp bangs, a broad mouth and glutinous eyes, sat in a Liége courtroom testifying that she had always been virtuous, romantic, if anything, too tender. Speaking in a husky, flat tone, she gave no indication of the nervousness she had ample reason to feel...
...fetish, that men must be satisfied while women must be virtuous" is being discarded, the enlightened modern declares. "Forty fraternity boys on our campus (Rollins?) were discussing the kind of wives they wanted (Snow White or D. Durbin?). Not one of them would marry a girl whom he believed to be dishonest, but only one] (Cotton Mather?) demanded virginity in his bride. Since most of us girls expect to marry college graduates, or their intellectual equivalents that is an answer...
...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...