Word: righteously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another nephew she married to the daughter of her girlhood love, thus producing Pu Yi whom she made Emperor at two. She floated a foreign loan for naval construction and put it into a fantastic marble pleasure boat that grounded in her lily pond. She sent the fanatic Boxers (Righteous Harmony Fists) against the Christian missionaries, stopped the massacres to make a sketch in the Forbidden City, again to send fresh fruit to the besieged foreigners...
...would be quite easy to draw a lurid and very vitriolic picture of the writer of said letter, based on the fact that often those who make a practice of building up a righteous and God-like exterior, are usually attempting to cover up an essentially dirty mind--his distortion of Nemo's girl, flask, and vacuum, into bawds, flasks, and vacuums, is enough for that--but I will be fairer to him than he has been to Nemo, and not judge him by his writings. I will only hope that he is a natural human being, as I feel...
...stolidly staring at his vest buttons. President Coolidge would have adroitly turned the conversation to the White House dogs. But President Roosevelt, too smart a politician to let even his best friends dirty up his administration with their greedy tricks, was ready to meet the issue headon. With a righteous ring the President answered the question not in direct quotations but in such a way that every newshawk got his meaning: the practice of lawyers capitalizing on their political connections is not in keeping with the spirit of his administration, since it implies backdoor access to administration officials...
...days be a prelude of the triumph that is to come. Merciful Father, come with us, and marvels shall come to our Nation reborn. Let self-sacrifice, heroism, and idealism make their irresistible appeal to our Republic until all citizens shall realize their brotherhood in one common Father. . . . O righteous God, frown upon all Mammon worship and hasten the time when the world over shall become just and generous, and by Thy touch man everywhere shall receive the blessing that he needs. In the name of our Elder Brother and the world's Saviour. Amen...
...first time since the War, Tammany Hall faces a long lean winter of political starvation, not of four months but of four years. Ridiculed by civic organizations, proved corrupt by a righteous investigator, beaten at the polls by a fiery little Italian-American Major, the Tammany sachems have been voting themselves pensions and appointments as fast as their Board of Estimate could say "Yea." At a single session fortnight ago they put through 471, including a pension for bumbling, prognathous Mayor John P. O'Brien. Out of dusty files they fished up and passed a pension for a onetime...