Word: virtuouse
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Elizabeth Canning, a virtuous serving wench, vanished into the labyrinthine London night on New Year's, 1753. Four weeks later she reappeared, bloodstained, gaunt with hunger, clad in rags. Before Magistrate Henry Fielding she told a tale which might have been sliced from his own Tom Jones. She claimed that she was seized by two ruffians, robbed, dragged to a bawdyhouse where a gypsy hag with a nightmare face ripped her stays (value: 10/) from her, locked her up in the loft. There Elizabeth languished until she escaped through a boarded window. The gypsy crone was tried before...
...instance where defense has ever won anything? If there are not enough examples in current history of offenders being the winners, turn through the pages of all past history and find more than a few isolated examples of defenders ever winning a war. Defense begets inferiority. However virtuous it may be, it certainly does not work out in practical warfare. We should not be the defenders of democracy but the crusaders of freedom; by this I mean we should go out and seek the enemy...
...sometimes traps victims into saying "Saturday night." Among U. S,, common folk Saturday night is not only bath time but play time. Children, asked when they like best to bathe, are likely to answer "Christmas," or "On my birthday." Obvious application to soap-selling: depict bathing not as a virtuous task but as a frolic...
Meanwhile, the underworlds of a dozen cities quaked as virtuous Bachelors Murphy and Hoover flew back east. For some unexplained reason even the local law was being enforced in Chicago.* As abstaining Frank Murphy winged toward Chicago it became harder to buy a drink after the legal closing hour than it ever had been during prohibition...
...when virtuous men have passed away...