Word: virtuous
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...Femina, but the member of the female jury reportedly turned i down because they could not believe ii the alcoholic and amatory prowess of th book's hero as he seduces a young heiress Commented Novelist François Mauriac "It displeases me to play the role of virtuous father. But I ask this question Why should the history of the sex life c this young lady be of particular interest . . .one is conformist today as never before. Apart from sex, no salvation...
...hope in a perhaps-mythical magazine called General Babo's Gazette and Carburator (sic), which has some of the finest unconscious press agents in town. He notes that perhaps General Babo will get a critical panning because of "the inevitable weaknesses of its contents." Can he suggest some more virtuous grounds on which to criticize a magazine...
Sentimentalists who had seen Maude Adams or Helen Hayes sweeten the role did not find the Maggie of their memories. "Maggie isn't so virtuous," says Siobhan in her rich resonance, the native Gaelic just a thin inflection away. "She can be a bloomin' bitch. I could play her all mealymouthed, the poor little rich girl, but I don't see it that...
...strike me that way, but everyone around me at the theatre was laughing fit to kill. At any rate, Mr. Benthall has certainly made them pleasant enough, with not much help from Shakespeare except for Sir Toby's great line to Malvolio: "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes...
Back at the Annex, however, angry words are being spilled over bowls of dull pineapple chunks. The Radcliffe honor system, about the only virtuous thing left in the world these days, is seen doomed; and kuties who cultivate the seedy demeanor are complaining that now they will have to dress-up when they take integrated finals...