Word: righteous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heitman continued: " The Monitor assumes no self-righteous attitude and makes no claim to absolute perfection in its construction; it does, however, stand for honesty, accuracy and fair dealing and would not even for the success of that which it deemed worthy deviate from that established policy and purpose so definitely indicated by its founder, Mary Baker Eddy, when she said, ' The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.' While those identified with The Christian Science Monitor are not indifferent to its success, I can say?to once again quote Mrs. Eddy...
ZANDER THE GREAT?Alice Brady plays an engaging foster mother, taking the orphaned Alexander to find his father in Arizona. They encounter instead a " brutal" bootlegger in chaps ? whom the little child leads into a vale of righteous happiness...
ZANDER THE GREAT?Alice Brady plays an engaging foster mother, taking the orphaned Alexander to find his father in Arizona. They encounter instead a "brutal" bootlegger in chaps?whom the little child leads into a vale of righteous happiness...
...rows, a savage hand plucks the puny thing from the ground, and holds it up for all to see. No illusions are left for us concerning the "Tutoring School". Swarms of indignant Philistines tore that feeble seed from its mother earth. So is France forced from a position of righteous indignation to that of vindication only by success. And now poor Custer! "This was the most unkindest cut of all," for, did he not have scores of years behind him? Knowledge is pleasant, but how much more blessed is ignorance? We can believe in what we do not know...
...reason in sanctioning Shakespeare, Milton, Gibbon, even the Bible, in whose pages may be found "foul and indecent" passages? They too have been censored in the past. In fact, to put the shoe on the other foot, the Parisian authorities once, banned Fielding's "Tom Jones", to the righteous glee of Richardson, who had never forgiven Fielding for his burlesque on "Pamela". But today we accept classics in English as they are, dirty and not washed behind the ears, if you like, but still themselves, uncensored. To discriminate against such classics because they happen to speak French, is manifestly unfair...