Word: virtuouse
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Mayor Bryan followed them and again the couple got no beer. Irked, the woman cried: "You are ruining my reputation!" Snapped virtuous Mayor Bryan: "A woman who lets a drunken man hug her for two blocks on a sultry afternoon is putting her reputation at stake...
Since Lytton Strachey published his Queen Victoria 15 years ago, that classic portrait of a just and virtuous monarch, first Empress of India, devoted wife and inconsolable widow, has scarcely been challenged by biographers. Readers might feel that Strachey had not told them all that was to be said about Victoria, but they were likely to be convinced, upon finishing his book, that he had told them about all they wanted to hear. In the shadow of that disadvantage Edith Sitwell last week offered a balanced, well-rounded-study of the Queen that included little new information about her, much...
Cassandra-like, Jefferson could sometimes read the future: "I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be any vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe." Shays's Rebellion did not horrify Jefferson nearly so much as it did Washington, Said he: "I like a little rebellion now & then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere...
...considerable photographic beauty and a very satisfying musical score. The chief merit of the picture, however, must be attributed to the compellingly intense performance of Hedy Kiesler in the central role of the young girl. There is a roughness and occasional incoherency which are probably the result of virtuous scissors...
...virtuous recital of the trials and triumphs of Congressional investigating committees published in the February issue of Harper's Magazine, Alabama's Senator Hugo La Fayette Black, who has made his reputation chiefly by heading Senate investigations of air mail contracts and of lobbying against the Public Utilities Bill, observed...