Word: righteously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horrid petition is circulating in your midst, asking support of President Conant's stand against the Teachers' Oath Bill. Despise the dirty thing, chill it with boredom, shake it off in righteous anger, yield to it for the pure sentimental thrill, but don't sign. Harvard's President has disgraced her enough, without adding the scandal of her sons boasting when they should, in common decency, be ashamed...
Postmaster General Farley, No. 2 man in the business of getting Franklin Roosevelt reelected, is no Mark Hanna, but he does know the practical operations of a political machine. The sophisticated may jeer at him, the righteous denounce him, but ward bosses understand his language and appreciate his friendly slap on the back...
...good understanding, to the enrichment of world civilization, and to the promotion of the peace and happiness of mankind!" This is the 1936 keynote in the symphony of East Asia politics which Japan is trying to conduct. She sees herself as a newborn Britain of the 20th Century, so righteous and so strong that she can afford to be magnanimous in bearing the yellow man's burden. When Mr. Hirota in his speech last week replied to the State of the Union speech in which President Roosevelt clearly meant to excoriate Japan (TIME, Jan. 13), the words were Japanese...
...still remember," declared Roosevelt II last week, "how these whom he denounced with righteous wrath winced under the stigma of such flashing epithets as 'malefactors of great wealth,' 'the wealthy criminal class' and the 'lunatic fringe.' He had a gift for pungent phrases...
Edna May Oliver is entitled to many of the remaining honors for her characterization of Miss Pross, the best of the pre-Wodehouse servants. No part could suit her better than that of this stiff, self-righteous, devoted maid-companion, to whom non-churchgoers are Atheists and the whole world is at the call of her ladybird. Blanche Yurka takes the part of Madame DeFarge, the fanatical wife of the wine shop keeper who heads the Jacquerie. She is in the role of an intensely emotional and overbearing personality such as she has played on the legitimate stage for many...