Word: virtuous
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...extenuations. Her husband lavished their little on drink and mistresses. She was only 19 and three years wed unhappily. When brilliant Dick Sheridan heard her as "Juliet" and persuaded gruff David Garrick to train her, she was a desperate girl, desperate enough to keep Sheridan as a brother; virtuous enough, after London was at her feet, to show Sheridan her offers from the rakes and have him compose stinging refusals. Nor did she succumb to the Prince of Wales (George IV) in a guilty mood. To her he was verily Prince Charming, up to the moment of commitment. Her second...
...should feel called upon to restrict his activities on the cindor path. Yet, by raising the cry of keeping amateur sport uncontaminated this is precisely what the A. A. U., the Western Conference, and similar federations have presumed to do. That actual professionalism flourishes unrebuked even under the most virtuous of these organizations, however, is by no means a secret. And amateur athletics would make a noteworthy step back towards their true function, should they revolt against the tyrranical and often hypocritical paternalism which now surrounds them...
...March there is no such virtuous excuse for cutting short general intellectual recuperation from mid-years or throwing the student again back upon his memory. It is true that then new courses are under way. Yet many of them are complementary to courses of the first half year; while the rest are merely new courses, not new modes of thought. There is no change as from summer to fail. And even were the April hours designed for some great need, they could hardly fill it while serving also as butts for general bad humor. What is half despised might well...
...Reckless Lady. Belle Bennett and Lois Moran, who did so admirably in Stella Dallas, have another mother and daughter fable. Most of it is in Monte Carlo. Lowell Sherman, James Kirkwood and Ben Lyon are the males involved. Mother turns virtuous, daughter gets a good husband, and Lowell Sherman is consigned to a watery grave. It is a pretty dull film...
...denouement revealed, however, that these virtuous Senators, the militant interpreters of the Constitution, were not thinking about the Constitution at all. Some of them were thinking about the World Court, and some about the Republican administration and some about the new tax bill. Those who liked all these things, lost; and those who did not, won. The score was 41-39. Then the Senators put their well-worn, eighteenth-century, uniforms of strict constructionists and loose constructionists away, where they may be ready to hand for the next sham battle--Constitutionally speaking...