Word: righteous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...League of Nations a righteous world forum in which minor nations can successfully seek redress against encroachment by the Great Powers...
...observed as such. (2) The personal, visible coming of Christ is near* at hand, and is to precede the millenium. At the close of the millenium, Christ and all His people will return to the earth; Satan and his sinners will come, will be ousted forever by the Righteous; then the earth will be made the fit abode of the people of God throughout the ages. (3) The service of washing one another's feet is observed at the quarterly meetings, the men and women meeting separately for this purpose, previous to the celebration of the Lord...
...Miami, Fla., a righteous, Chautauqua-looking gentleman recently enjoyed a vacation under the cocoanut trees-his first long rest in 30 years. Automobilists who had Nebraska license plates (25,000 of them, he said) came to him, urged him to come home and run for the governorship. Charles Wayland Bryan, Baptist, Odd Fellow, Woodman, onetime Governor of Nebraska, Democratic Vice Presential candidate in 1924, has returned to his home. He now stands unopposed for the Democratic nomination. Against him the Republicans will probably nominate (in the primaries August 10) Governor Adam McMullen. The political recrudescence of the brother...
...Able, righteous Senator Borah had once played with Presidential etiquette by failing to appear at a White House luncheon for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, of which he is chairman. No explanation of the incident was made at the time, but last week it was said that Senator Borah had understood the luncheon to be canceled, whereas really a breakfast invitation for another day had been canceled...
Many a prurient and self-righteous U. S. racing pilot cried: "No wonder the A. A. A. socked him with a spanner! No Roumanian wop-frog who's livin' with a red-headed Jewess in Paris while his morganatic wife sues him for 10 million francs and his real wife is Princess Helen of Greece, should ought to be allowed in an American garage. I'll say his name is 'Morry Turp'! Moral Turpitude is right...