Word: righteous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over two weeks during the midyear period almost every undergraduate is a "grind". He buys him an eye-shade, locks his study door, and with self-righteous ardor applies himself for long hours to his books. He forsakes his club, turns his back resolutely upon his telephone, and puts off answering his mail...
Coincident with the action of the lawn tennis officials, word came from the Olympic Committee that no athlete competing will be allowed to record for the press the experiences of the American team. Thus far no literary pole vaulters have threatened in righteous indignation to forsake their poles for their pens...
...supported him vigorously. With such sure support an impresario is in a favorable position to deal with singers. The gentleman from Milan understood the art of handling vocal artists. With an unbending dignity and awe-inspiring aloofness, he squelched the natural operatic tendency to loud quarrels, public statements of righteous indignation, webs of intrigue, various forms of sabotage. People who were not amenable to reason went. There was no appeal from his decision...
...improved the farce of the thing by taking No. 1 seriously, and by explaining to him in the sweetest tones that it was not we who sang "Johnny Harvard" at the Harvard-Oxford debate, but a parcel of knaves who must not be counted among the members of our righteous Student Body. Whether we sang it or whether we did not sing it, the spirit of "Johnny Harvard" is in our hearts, and none but the veriest hypocrite will try to h'ss down...
...Rand of Harvard, a student of the colonial history of Georgia, claimed that the proposed honor was too great for he memory of a person who was but one of the several to promote the colony. The greater number who opposed the transfer muttered "sacriligious ghouls" I h a righteous shudder...