Word: virtuousic
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...what does the delegate propose? To place the vicious vagrant, the wandering Arabs, the Tartar hordes of our large cities on the level with the virtuous and good man? . . . These Arabs steeped in crime and vice, to be placed on a level with industrious population is insulting and degrading to the community. . . . I hold up my hands against a proceeding which confers on the idle, vicious, degraded vagabond a right at the expense of the poor and industrious portion of the commonwealth...
...found that the Piltdown skull was the concotion of the jawbone of a modern ape with the skull of a modern man--the most colossal fraud over to be executed in the fossil world. Insisted dumfounded Hallam L. Movius, associate professor, of Anthropology: "Most people in the field are virtuous, honest...
...behind his mother's skirts, diffidently proclaims his virtue, Krampus rattles a huge chain or lashes the air with a switch in menacing disbelief. Sometimes he even comes equipped with a large basket in which to carry off young people whose stories clearly won't wash. However virtuous Junior's conduct during the preceding year may have been, a bout with Krampus usually leaves him shattered but determined to improve...
Movius last night said he knows of "nothing like this in the history of Paleontology." Researchers in this field are normally "honest, virtuous peaple," he explained...
When Tobey exhorted the nation to rise above sin and return to its virtuous old ways, he evoked the faint tinkle of a Salvation Army tambourine. "When the hearts of men and women are touched," he cried, "they take their inspiration from the Master of Men, and then we will have . . . in this nation a nation in which dwelleth righteousness-and before God it is high time." No one doubted Tobey's sincerity; he spoke from the heart. Once, he was so moved by his own eloquence that he burst into tears...