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Word: aright (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Befuddled, appalled, embarrassed were Earl Browder and his U. S. Comrades. The Party press went first into a silence, then into a great writhing (see p. 32). Back to Manhattan from vacation hastened Comrade Browder to set the capitalist press aright .in his.ninth-floor eyrie. Said he with aplomb: 1) "The announcement of the Pact has done no injury whatsoever to the Communist Party cause here. I know my Party"; 2) the Soviet Union and the Communist Party in the U. S. have neither abandoned nor compromised their fight on world Fascism; 3) the Pact constitutes "a distinct contribution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Revised Reds | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Things started aright for the soccer team, however, for its triumphed over its first New England League opponent, Tufts, by five goals, leaving the invaders scoreless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL TEAMS LOSE OVER WEEKEND; SOCCER TRIUMPHS | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...Russian ballet dancers in an American hotel and sketches with humor and feeling the aversion of a lesser Nijinsky tragedy. The third fictional item, "I said my Penance" by Peul Clark, is a light, almost New-Yorkerish vignette of a Catholic college student setting his rather elastic conscience aright for "Easter duty...

Author: By Dana B. Durand, INSTRUCTOR IN HISTORY AND LITERATURE | Title: Awareness of Contrast Livens Poems, Fiction, Reviews in April Advocate | 4/13/1937 | See Source »

...agrees, in bitter conflict with the latent notability, in her, to lure Gary and his belt full of the people's money into the grasping yellow hands of General Yang, war lord and fiendish oppressor of some unnamed Chinese province. Before this unhappy state of affairs is set aright by a drunken man's knife plunged into the general's belly just before the crack of dawn, pretty faces have to be slapped, bullets to fly, traitors to be betrayed, instruments of torture to be brandished, and never-say-die men to be put to the acid test. The looker...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...hare, even the sheep, are trembling in a freezing moor. A glowing chamber on this holy night is ringing with the revelry of a thousand guests; and somewhere old dames are telling an old story over again: How on this eve thoughtful maids "If ceremonies they did aright . . . " might win sight of their lover in their dreams. The fair Madeline, full of this whim is preparing in her chamber. Already Porphyro stands beside the castle gates. An old beldame speaks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/16/1935 | See Source »

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