Word: righteous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with Bruce Barton, widely known through his efforts to bring religion down to the intelligence of his public, gave his sentiments on numerous topics of modern conversation--but avoiding all mention of politics. The paprters, astounded that he who could not, did speak, objected strenuously. Where, they asked in righteous indignation, where was their friend, the Official Spokesman? And if he had been superseded, why were they not given a chance for a scoop...
...called "better element" becomes excited only on occasions when the Rockefeller Foundation calls Detroit "the vilest city in the country," or when a newspaper publisher is murdered in Canton, Ohio (TIME, July 26). However, there is one town which has recently raised the visceral tension of the righteous about once a month. That town is Cicero, Ill., a Utopian nook for the twins. Here on the western fringe of Chicago is a polyglot population of 62,000-Irishmen, Italians, Sicilians, Slavs and many another tribe. The Western Electric Co. employs thousands of them; other industries are near and plentiful...
...become the peacetime chief of the army. In the language of the streets, he should keep the army on its toes. Said he, many years ago: "Persons who talk about peace and abolishing the army forget that everything the United States has, it got by force. No matter how righteous are the decisions it makes, it could not be anything but another China if it had not force to back up those decisions...
...people hot, delicate and windy, has schooled his natural haste into precision. His eye is cool; his strokes are like insults uttered in a careful voice. But the man of legend is a Jack of a different silk. Bleak in person and in countenance, sprung of a thin and righteous line of thee-and-thouers, he has sharpened caution into vehemence: every bravery of his stride is his, every fine conceit of skill and insolence. For a while his thundering ways prevailed, and the crowd cheered; then the soft-spoken stranger won back his lost advantage and more...
...couple, hopelessly out of love with each other, rebel against the Divine Will that bids amorous romance vanish soon after marriage. They decide to live in the illusion that they are really in love. It may be only "throwing bean bags at the Gods" but it will be a righteous gesture against divine tyranny. In their common enthusiasm for the game, they find that the spark of their former love is rekindled. The sour grapes are within reach-and sweet. The trouble with the play is that so much of this is expressed in dialog, so little in incident. Still...