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This week France chose Mile. Henriette Saget as the most virtuous of all French women, but America will not be outdone in originality. At a great convention of canary birds in Chicago, the world's best warbler was elected. In the hope of finding a prize winner, the U. S. S. Pittsburgh made a trip to the canary islands, but the Marines found only dogs, so 'Baby Grand" won the prize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IMAGE-MAKING | 12/21/1922 | See Source »

...their opponents in times of peace, we may be sure that they will fall. We who support the old principles of the American government have to oppose not so much the active opposition of the avowed enemies of the country openly endeavoring to overthrow us as the work of virtuous but impractical and shortsighted individuals dazzled by particular events or maddened by particular wrongs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATTITUDE OF COLLEGE MEN TOWARDS POLITICS ALL WRONG, SAYS PELL | 3/22/1922 | See Source »

...brought up properly. This is an outrageous doctrine." Yet one cannot help feeling that if all women dared as Mary Throgmorton dared, that if all had the courage she had, then the world need not worry as to the future of its children or its morals or its virtuous modesty. Mr. Thurston advocates no universal theor of free love--live, yes, and live fully, but to live one must be big enough, as was Mary Throgmorton, to count the cost and to find joy even in the sorrow and pain that go to make up the fullness of life. Only...

Author: By R. D. E., | Title: BEAUTY AND DELICACY IN THE GREEN BOUGH | 4/29/1921 | See Source »

Although to all intents and purposes the conventional girl and music show, this comedy offered by Mr, Lew Fields differs in its mode of presentation from the average. The plot deals with a virtuous young chorus girl from the South who, by her innocence and charm, succeeds in smashing a few conventions with impunity...

Author: By M. P. B., | Title: "POOR LITTLE RITZ GIRL" IS FIRST OF SUMMER PIECES | 6/3/1920 | See Source »

...undergraduates of the University are branded more or less delicately as "snobs," the proof of their snobbery being sown thick with mention of Gold Coasts, clubs and other evil inventions. It is somewhat of a question whether a man is an aristocrat even if he puts no virtuous boycott on Mt. Auburn street dormitories, and is social enough to like to meet his friends in a social organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MODERN QUIXOTE SPEAKS | 3/19/1917 | See Source »

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