Word: virtuously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, the underworlds of a dozen cities quaked as virtuous Bachelors Murphy and Hoover flew back east. For some unexplained reason even the local law was being enforced in Chicago.* As abstaining Frank Murphy winged toward Chicago it became harder to buy a drink after the legal closing hour than it ever had been during prohibition...
...when virtuous men have passed away...
...student to make his choice between good and evil and every other set of alternatives. Why not throw the course records wide open to the tutors and let them with much less effort on their part efficiently bombard the student with advertising? After all, it is difficult now, where virtuous monitors are prevalent, to make a "liberal" choice between a diploma from Harvard and a sheepskin from Wolff...
...relation to the people. The warmhearted, benignly sly old Canon of an Irish village has become paralyzed, and a younger man, Father Shaughnessy, comes to take over the Canon's duties. Glacial, snooping, bullying, Shaughnessy, like the Clown in Twelfth Night, thinks that because he is virtuous, there shall be no more cakes...
...contribution to that column of student opinion styled "The Mail." The title or subject matter of this missive might well "Let Us Be Virtuous" or "There is Work to be Done Before We Sharpen Our Skis" or "Honor His Memory" or "Who More Slothful in Their Inward Turning Gaze Than...