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Said the one virtuous woman (you may be sure the author made her most undesirable) "I have stood for everything else, but this morning I find a naked woman in my husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1936 | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...idea that there's anything namby-pamby or arty about this picture. Gary Cooper is a sturdy automobile engineer from Detroit, a man of strong passions and few words. And although the picture takes several delightful dips into the risque, yet it is so daringly virtuous in the long run as to make Gary Cooper turn the audacious jewel theft into a penitent and completely reformed wife...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 3/14/1936 | See Source »

...gives the 20th-century meaning to the Epicureans of old time. Invested with the "divine right" to amuse himself and TIME'S readers, he has supplanted completely ex-Mayor Jimmie Walker as a carefree individualist deluxe in my heart of hearts. Others may worship their sedately virtuous Victorias. I'll partake of large hunks of Carol-at a safe distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 2, 1936 | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...Marie for the Blessed Virgin, Thèrèse for the Little Flower of Lisieux, whose career she was to duplicate at many points. The 33 months pale, pretty Marie Thèrèse Wang was a Christian on earth is the simple story of a precociously virtuous soul, a saint seen in small, sharp detail through a minifying glass. She never looked at her Missal because "books are a distraction to me. ... I have so many things to tell Him." At 12 she was impatient to become a Daughter of Charity. At 14 she vowed herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Saintly Children | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

Meanwhile Soviet news organs also slued completely around to inform Moscovites that persons who oppose Christmas trees are no longer the virtuous Old Bolsheviks and the stern Heroes of the Revolution they were fortnight ago, but are now despicable "Leftwing oppositionists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Grandfather Frost | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

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