Word: virtuously
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...father, where a change of administration dropped him to the governorship of a small island, where he died. Josefina, then 20, took refuge with a Creole family in Manila. "There was one wholly exceptional young man in Manila, tall, blond, aquiline, blue-eyed, an American, a Protestant, and unmistakably virtuous." He was George Sturgis, 32. This marriage was for him extremely happy. But George Sturgis, after taking his family to Boston on the clipper ship Fearless, died in the midst of a commercial failure. same ship. Years later, at the start of the Civil War, Josefina moved to Madrid...
...learned a lot about democracy. A less steadfast man might have been sickened by the mess, might have lost his faith in popular government. Not so Judge Ferguson. He found it no fatal fault that democracy gives its opportunities to the weak and vicious as well as to the virtuous...
...Democrat, Farmer-Labor) into sudden frenzy. If Stassen is re-elected and then goes off to war the following spring, the man elected Lieutenant Governor next November will be Minnesota's Governor within six months. And, though even cynics admitted that Governor Stassen's patriotism was perfectly virtuous, they also pointed out that that virtue might well bring more than its own reward: a bemedaled young hero who had helped win World War II might look good to many a 1944 President-maker...
...religion, medicine, the rich. At length he meets repentance head-on in the dead person of an old pal: "I saw hanging to a tree the impaled corpse of an executed man in his white gown and tall cap adorned with a red cross, his hands bound." Towards the virtuous end of his life Poll finds a new pal-"One Lizárdi . . . a sorry writer in your motherland, known to the public as 'the Mexican Thinker.' " Dying, he entrusts Thinker Lizárdi with his story. The Thinker adds his own account of Poll's pathetic...
...years a stanchly liberal M.P., went off on another tack. "This overemphasized question of slavery! One can go into a sheik's tent in the [British-controlled] Jordan valley and have one's coffee served by a black slave. Don't let us be too virtuous about these things." What worried Lord Wedgwood was the fact Britain had not seized Italian property in Ethiopia outright...