Word: virtuously
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...remain a nice girl withal. Artfully, she barters little tokens of self-respect for ten dollar bills, dinners, gowns, invitations to the country. As it must, under even the most liberal credit system, there comes a day of reckoning. The poor girl has but one asset. She surrenders her virtuous distinction. A little moth, a little flame, a little singe-it is nothing to bring a lump to the throat. Katharine Alexander makes it more interesting than it deserves...
...cynic, would rather his dear Albert retain a beautiful illusion than know the bitter truth. So he writes a play during the night, works the scandalous conversation into the dialogue, makes the two culprits act it before the houseparty guests, thus makes the naughty prima donna partner to a virtuous rehearsal in her chamber the night before. It was rather difficult to find some-thing " 'soft, round, velvety,'-and respectable." But Playwright Molnar is nothing if not ingenious. He has even given Johann Dwornits-chek, footman, a personality. Ralph Nairn plays the part. The entire cast, headed...
...Later, in 1924, Mr. Stephenson was ousted from the national Klan because he had violated his oath of allegiance and had been "disrespectful to virtuous womanhood." He had already organized an independent Klan, had himself chosen Grand Dragon; and then replied to his old friend, Imperial Wizard Hiram Evans: "The present national head is an ignorant, uneducated, uncouth individual who picks his nose at the table and eats his peas with his knife. He has neither courage nor culture...
...girl in the fifth row said, "Still an' all, he is good-looking." Padlocked (Lois Moran and Noah Beery). Here is a typical concession to the popular flair for denouncing everything puritanical. A reformer is represented as the fanatical persecutor of his lovely wife and daughter, both 100% virtuous by nature. The reformer, nasty-minded, looks upon lawn tennis as vice. Eventually he is made to see that the source of all evil is restraint and the source of all sweetness and light is in the freedom denied by reformers. Out of such unwholesome moralizing by Rex Beach, Director...
...Pauline Frederick). "A Drama of the White Hot Passions of the Isle of Lost Men" shrieks its press agent. Although the temperature of the passions has been grossly exaggerated, the the picture is commonplace enough to justifly the general tone of its advertising. The story concerns a group of virtuous people whom Fate forces into exile as prisoners of Devil's Island until a powerful friend happens to alter the situation a decade or two later...