Word: virtuously
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...that after his release, he devotes himself to saintly deeds. He becomes mayor of a small French town, befriends a stricken harlot, adopts her child, Cosette. Later he retires to Paris to live quietly with his ward. Because of a trivial offense heedlessly committed after his release, this virtuous man is mercilessly hounded by Police Inspector Javert. At the summit of every achievement, Valjean is forced to flee from the scene of his good work by the appearance of this symbol of lawful duty, this relentless fury. In the end, he saves his oppressor's life...
...While all this is taking place that virtuous and severe President Coolidge murmurs praises and Biblical Psalms, delivers addresses of moral sentences and pleads that justice, peace and fraternity should unite...
Whereupon, M. Champion, the interviewer goes on to relate, began to laugh at the thought of poor backward France, where people are less puritan but more virtuous than in free but dry America. His opinion of modern American literature as compared with French, was likewise not very high...
...centuries the very slow progress of morality through processes of natural evolution has proved a constant reproach to the more virtuous and earnest members of the human race. Law, persecution, and reform have all been tried as experiments for forcing people, to measure up to the proper moral standards, but have alike proved failures in the attempt at wholesale elevation of human morality...
...Kiss in a Taxi (Bebe Daniels). With typical Hollywood depiction of Montmartre, Bebe Daniels, virtuous and pure young Parisian waitress, is discovered smashing chinaware every time a man tries to kiss her. There is in the picture, oddly, a poor young artist. He overcomes, strangely, the animadversions of the young waitress. During the seven reels that it takes him to do it, five million dishes are shown to break...