Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moreover, particularly well arranged that the right-feeling vagabond may today usher in his day's respite with listening to a Beethoven quartet--number one of Opus 59 to be exact--played at 10 o'clock this morning in Paine Hall of the Music Building by the Darrell String Quartet. After hearing it one should be in a proper frame of mind for the following festivities...
...portraits, all in all, were the most interesting pictures. One Feodor Zakharov's which took the $300 Lippincott award, foolishly titled Reverie, showed a woman in a black dress leaning against the back of a sofa; in her right hand was a book she had been reading five minutes before. Since then, the furiously traveling train of her consciousness had rolled down a steep, delicious scenic railway of thoughts and remembrances. Now this train was coasting slowly toward a standstill; the lady's eyes were closed with enigmatic pleasure; her smile would surely have annoyed a clever husband...
Bantamweight (118) Bud Taylor (N. B. A. Candidate. His right to the title is variously disputed...
...highly to be praised. Yet, would $500,000 spent in anti-saloon propaganda ("educational purposes") be sufficient to counteract the unfortunate effect produced upon those persons who would instantly suppose that if a man commits adultery with, as it were, his left hand while he commits philanthropy with his right, the man is a hypocrite, and the organization which accepts his bounty is a partner in his hypocrisy? A religious issue was immediately raised. Said the Northwestern Christian Advocate: "Can it [the Anti-Saloon League] take the money without compromising, in the public mind, the individual and collective moral sincerity...
...article attempting to break down sales resistance on the part of lukewarm candidates for the ministry was contributed to the North American Review by the Right Reverend James Henry Darlington, of the Episcopal diocese of Harrisburg, Pa. The Christian Century summarized the Bishop's sales-talk as follows...