Word: righteous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speculator, a certain Dr. Fred Puleston* is violently convinced of fraud. In righteous indignation he marshals evidence to prove "that bleary old Műnchausen . . . an unmitigated liar" who has "grossly slandered Livingston, Stanley, Cecil Rhodes." The slander: that Livingston married a black, that Stanley was a murderer, that Rhodes, drunk on prickly-pear brandy, had to be rescued from the crocodile. Employed for many years by the English firm (Hatton & Cookson) which sent "Horn" to Africa, Puleston declares that the recorded exploring expeditions, river charting, native battles, elephant hunts, "gorilla purveys," and rescue of a captive English girl, were...
...editorial writer for the New York Evening World, was awaited with more than usual interest. Keynoter Bowers had won great and sudden fame at a Jackson Day dinner (TIME, Jan. 23), by a brilliant attack upon the Harding "gang." In an era when oratory rarely moves, he stirred righteous indignation in the bosoms of embattled Democrats. He was expected to eschew political pap, offer a program of progress...
...made is on each occasion clear. Moral earnestness is required, yet the choice is between obvious right and wrong. Such a choice would be easy. In the maze of life, however, the conditions are much more insidious. The alternatives are by no means always a rugged but righteous road that winds upward, and a pleasant way leading surely to ultimate perdition. Often the paths do not seem very different, or to diverge much; and a clear vision is required to see whiter they tend Nor does a choice settle the destination, for there are by ways to return...
Last week, in Manhattan, John S. Sumner, head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, saw a picture in a window which aroused his righteous rage. The picture was the celebrated Andromache at the Siege of Troy, by Antoine Georges Marie Rochegross. Grotesque and terrible, it depicts Hector's wife at the moment when she is being dragged away from Troy for the pleasure of Neoptolemus, son of Achilles; her little son, Axtynax, is being yanked away from his mother by a brutal soldiery. The nude body of a nymph lies prostrate in the foreground. When...
...theirs to sleep upon, and finally instructed that all should be up betimes at 5 a. m. Docile, the peasants ate, slept, rose and assembled under the supervision of their priests to take the following great pious oath: "We swear to the great and good God to fight a righteous fight against the Government which is a plague to the country and which was nominated by a decree wrung from King Ferdinand on his deathbed. We swear that a new Rumania shall be created which shall stand for freedom and justice to all of Rumania's brave sons...