Word: virtuous
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...more than 13 gallons of hard liquor may be bought in any one year by even the most virtuous citizen. Less than 40% of the passbook holders ask for enough to fill their quotas. Single, self-supporting women were sternly held down by Dr. Bratt to an average of a gallon a year. Bachelors must attain the age of 23 before becoming eligible for a passbook...
...especially in the South, were trying and would try to connect him with VICE. The more the ordinary man got to life him, the more the ordinary woman might be alarmed. In some vague way, he was to be the symbol of sexual infidelity, of degrading pleasures which the virtuous woman feared more than beer. He was to be thoroughly confused with New York, and somehow all the vice (sex) of Broadway and the Bowery was to be imputed...
...passion camouflaged by casual words. Author Meynell's is a civilized novel. The story of Claire's unselfishness is not cluttered with realistic details concerning Louise's husband who "had drifted into a discreditable way of life," Louise herself who "made all men feel a little virtuous who kept their eyes off her," and Hague whose early life had known many lands and many women. No doubt the accepted method would consider this data essential to "atmosphere," but Viola Meynell holds to an earlier tradition of beauty. For she is daughter of the late Alice Meynell, poet...
When details of His Royal Highness' cartoon leaked out, last week, serious minded Britons recalled with indignation that during Chancellor Churchill's great Budget speech Edward of Wales sat in the gallery, just over the clock, with paper, pencil, and an innocent, virtuous air of taking notes...
...chauffeur. One fine evening, she makes advances to honorable Chauffeur Ogletree; but he repulses her and wrecks the automobile while doing so. She is injured; her husband suspects honorable Wrecker Ogletree, sends him back to prison to labor and be flogged. In the end, honorable Hero Ogletree finds a virtuous nurse and Mrs. Jack Dempsey flogs her film husband...