Word: righteous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part: "Since their emancipation from slavery the masses of American Negroes have lived by the light of a simple but deeply moving faith. They have believed in the love and providence of a just and holy God; they have believed in the principles of democracy and in the righteous purpose of the Federal Government; and they have believed in the disposition of the American people as a whole and in the long run to be fair in all their dealings...
...From those terrible days until this day the Negro's faith in the righteous purpose of the Federal Government has sagged. Some have laid the blame on the parties in power, and some have laid it elsewhere, but all the colored people in every section of the United States believe that there is something wrong, and not accidentally wrong, at the very heart of the government...
...unfair to ascribe to the Jewish students alone, an account obviously concocted from various sources, colored by the feverish imagination of burrowing reporters, and from its very nature, purporting to sympathize with the "suppressed minority" whose suffering is "exposed"? I am particularly sorry that Mr. MacVeagh, in his righteous indignation, has fallen into that very ancient fallacy of crediting the whole Jewish race with the possible sins of its individuals. Perhaps I am unjust in sensing this attitude in his letter; and I should be happy to be corrected. But there are innuendoes...
...which seems to your reviewer only a regrettable bid for notoriety? For one thing, he has not tried to write a history of the war, nor an exposition of its issues, nor an account of the typical spirit of the American army. He believes the war a just and righteous one; but a picture of it does not require a lot of foot-notes to that effect by Mr. George Creel. Like any artist worthy of the name, Mr. Dos Passos has attempt a portrayal of the truth about human life from a given and necessarily limited point of view...
...decreed incorrect by arbitrary standards) the citizens of the United States may claim great credit for themselves for their considerable advance toward perfect expression in language. Moreover, professors and literati, who have hitherto gazed haughtily down upon the rabble from the rarified heights of correct speech, would suffer a righteous degradation. Yet it is never too late to learn, and these latter might in time master the new idiom. It would certainly be amusing to hear the ingenuous members of English A rebuked for using "isn't" instead of "aint...