Word: virtuouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bars prohibiting tournaments open to both professionals and amateurs. No doubt the first effect will be to settle questions which tennis devotees have argued since Vincent Richards and Mile. Lenglen succumbed to the wiles of Mr. C. C. Pyle. Now the Yonkers star can match his skill with those virtuous members of the First Ten who do not accept rewards for playing, and it will be seen whether playing tennis for money has affected his ability. If Suzanne can be persuaded to agree on a time and place at which she will be in proper health of mind and body...
...country, having been founded at Boston in 1780 chiefly through the efforts of John Adams 1755, later President of the United States. Its purpose was and is to "cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance interest, dignity, honor, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people...
...that after his release, he devotes himself to saintly deeds. He becomes mayor of a small French town, befriends a stricken harlot, adopts her child, Cosette. Later he retires to Paris to live quietly with his ward. Because of a trivial offense heedlessly committed after his release, this virtuous man is mercilessly hounded by Police Inspector Javert. At the summit of every achievement, Valjean is forced to flee from the scene of his good work by the appearance of this symbol of lawful duty, this relentless fury. In the end, he saves his oppressor's life...
...While all this is taking place that virtuous and severe President Coolidge murmurs praises and Biblical Psalms, delivers addresses of moral sentences and pleads that justice, peace and fraternity should unite...
Whereupon, M. Champion, the interviewer goes on to relate, began to laugh at the thought of poor backward France, where people are less puritan but more virtuous than in free but dry America. His opinion of modern American literature as compared with French, was likewise not very high...