Word: virtuousic
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Playing at Washington's Capitol Theater, famed good-looking Mimic Sheila Barrett included in her repertoire the well-known caricature of a virtuous Southern girl starting out for a big night in Manhattan, winding up drunk in a night club. After Miss Barrett had played the bit for five days, a lady member of the Georgian Society protested that the impersonation was "not a true picture of Southern women." Miss Barrett was promptly ordered to remove the bit from her act. She agreed: "I'm here to entertain people, not embarrass them...
...Governor "Jim" Ferguson. They refused to take oil promotion advertising during the Burkburnett, Ranger, Eastland and East Texas booms. Last week, seven days after the Legislature outlawed all forms of race-track betting in Texas, Publisher Dealey, now 77, again placed his papers in the position of doing the virtuous thing at the risk of losing readers. Announced he: "The Dallas News and the Dallas Journal, believing that anti-racing legislation expresses the will of the people of the State, have discontinued publication of racing charts, selections and results of horse racing. Space heretofore devoted to turf activities will...
...filling station proprietor who would not sell, Father Coughlin has been sticking to religion lately. When asked to comment on the fact that he had a new superior, succeeding the late, well-meaning Bishop Michael James Gallagher of Detroit (TIME, Feb. 1), Father Coughlin was polite and virtuous. "I am highly pleased," said he. "I will fall in line exactly with any expressed suggestion of Archbishop Mooney...
Though the man who will be crowned on May 12 may not have the "charm" of Edward Windsor, he promises to be as duty-bound and soundly virtuous as George V, one of whose homely maxims was "Teach me never to cry for the moon nor over split milk." Growing up under the careful eye of her grandmother, the heiress-presumptive promises to become a woman well equipped to be a second Queen Elizabeth. Such material for the throne, coupled with the fact that Premier Baldwin's government seems to have sharpened its democratic mace against Bolshevik and Fascist competition...
Harvard has more at stake than mere athletic prestige. As one of the last strongholds of amateurism among the large universities, it must vindicate the stand it has taken. Like the virgin at Winter Carnival, Harvard must prove that one can be virtuous and get away with it. The atmosphere is right for success. Since his arrival last fall Coach Harlow has inspired respect and confidence. The student body has refused to see in a series of defeats any permanent omen. This season the Boston newspapers have been very considerate, especially for Boston newspapers. There is every hope that...