Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole policy aims at co-operation and good understanding with the United States and England and other powers having an interest in this part of the world. The Washington Four Power Treaty gives us the right of full and frank consultation with the signatory powers and if difficulties arise we shall exercise that right...
Going below, Captain Aubert found his passengers picking themselves up, putting themselves to rights, after being tumbled about for three minutes as in a brutal storm. Fortunately, the only damage was minor bruises, sprains and a scratch in the left hand of right-handed Jean Borotra, Davis Cup tennis man from France...
Most important was the item of recognition of the property right of news. U. S. delegates protested against theft of exclusive news, scoops and beats, averring that the newspaper which discovers news first should have the sole right, for the day at least, to print the news. British newspapers were opposed, arguing that whatever happens is the property of the people, not a private organization...
...Come into this death house with me," began Mr. Grey. Lurid details followed. Among them: "Elliott, the official killer, stood to the right of him with a fiendish grin on his face. ... He leaped, literally leaped, to the switchboard. . . . The switch went in. ... Sacco's hands . . . doubled into a knot. The veins in his long, thin, white hands began to rise and kept on rising until I thought they would burst and drench all of us with blood. . . . Sacco's neck was swelling to a huge inhuman size. . . . The saliva was literally pouring out of his mouth. . . . Try to compare...
...mimetic accuracy (but not the rancor) of a Sinclair Lewis, and at the same time to create four central characters of breathless reality, and a Dickensian hurly-burly of minor characters, and to keep them moving through their swift social traffic under their own power and in their right positions, requires a highly developed social instinct and something akin to literary genius. Socially and book-technically, Little Sins is a stunning performance. And to its fundamental perfections are superadded real whimsy, real pathos, an unobtrusive cleverness at small talk...