Word: virtuous
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...shanghai's her as soon as alcohol has relieved him of his scanty scruples. The ship turns out to be the vessel of a group whose every effort is bent upon keeping the powers at sword's edge, a sort of munitions-makers' fairy godmother. At the moment this virtuous band is plotting to blow up the Panama Canal and blame it on the Japanese, so that the America-Japanese war will not take so long in coming about. In her efforts to return to her native land our poor Marie becomes hopelessly involved in the machinations of these sons...
...light of this speech, it is interesting to recall the origin of the term, Forgotten Man. In 1883 William Graham Sumner, then Professor of Political and social Science in Yale University, delivered an address under the title of "The Forgotten Man." Summer defined him as "the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes, and is never heard of out of his little circle." The lecturer then went on to say: "We all seem to be under the delusion that the rich pay the taxes . . It is the Forgotten Man who pays . . He works, he votes...
...rival of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek in schemes to make Chinese more virtuous (see above) is cocky Cantonese Admiral Chang Chi-ying. Not long ago he disrupted a new-style Cantonese custom, forbade mixed bathing, proclaimed the slogan "Feminine Curves Shall Not Be Seen By Men!" Last week rueful Cantonese prepared to observe a yet more obnoxious ban: "Mixed walking in public," decreed the Canton Government, "is not compatible with the old virtues and must cease...
...scout saw her picture he arranged a screen test, then a contract. At 15, Jean Arthur went to Hollywood, acted in cinema for nine years, made her stage debut in 1932 as a Hungarian peasant in. Foreign Affairs. Since then she has appeared in The Curtain Rises, Virtuous Husbands, The Man Who Reclaimed His Head...
...descendants through all eternity to the House of Habsburg. These Legitimists have a pretty plan that Austria's "loyal provinces" should declare one by one that they are bound to Otto in virtue of the great oath. More likely to succeed seems a royalist putsch financed from Italy, though virtuous young Otto has said that he could never take a Throne made his by revolution. Once the Throne is really in sight Austrians are confident that Zita could conquer Otto's scruples. Masterful and imperious, it was "Empress" Zita's great triumph last week that the King of Italy should...