Word: virtuouse
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...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...
...TIME, Jan. 31). Prohibition has taught them much. However, the American Tobacco Co.'s advertising agency advised boldness and got Madame Schumann Heink to testify: "I recommend Lucky Strikes because they are kind to my throat." If Madame Schumann Heink smokes cigarets and yet remains solidly respectable and virtuous at 65, why then, no woman need conceal her smoking. . . . The American Tobacco Co. makes eight other important brands of cigarets, so that if this advertising arouses prohibitive discrimination against Lucky Strikes, the company can push some of its other makes...
...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...
...DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS- Maxwell Struthers Burt-Scribner ($2). That this novel was still possible in the U. S. is a matter for great thanksgiving. It is a book about the "great open spaces" by an enlightened man. A strong, silent rancher marries a virtuous Manhattan chorus girl, loses her for a while, fights predatory waterpower interests, tries city life, goes back at last to the cows, mountains, little grey home and prospective patter of tiny feet. But with what a difference are these properties handled by a man who writes with a mind instead of a sack of mush! Instead...