Word: virtuouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...centuries the very slow progress of morality through processes of natural evolution has proved a constant reproach to the more virtuous and earnest members of the human race. Law, persecution, and reform have all been tried as experiments for forcing people, to measure up to the proper moral standards, but have alike proved failures in the attempt at wholesale elevation of human morality...
...Kiss in a Taxi (Bebe Daniels). With typical Hollywood depiction of Montmartre, Bebe Daniels, virtuous and pure young Parisian waitress, is discovered smashing chinaware every time a man tries to kiss her. There is in the picture, oddly, a poor young artist. He overcomes, strangely, the animadversions of the young waitress. During the seven reels that it takes him to do it, five million dishes are shown to break...
...broker (Lewis Stone), the poor but honest hero (Lloyd Hughes). She gives up her $150-a-week job to try living on the hero's $60, thereby makes the plutocrat dangerous, her husband mad. It ends according to the Will Hays standard, with wealth and happiness for the virtuous. The cast is engaging in spite of the scenario...
...Virtuous Vice...
...York Tribune (now the New York Herald Tribune). "The immoral and degrading Police Reports, Advertisements and other matter which have been allowed to disgrace the columns of our leading Penny Papers, will be carefully excluded from this, and no exertion spared to render it worthy of the virtuous and refined, and a welcome visitant at the family fireside." Horace was editor; one Thomas McElrath, his partner, was business manager. Among those who worked on Greeley's Tribune at one time or another: Charles A. Dana (famed for the Sun), Whitelaw Reid (father of Ogden Reid, present Herald Tribune owner), John...