Word: righteously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passion for the Orient, an explanation which did not allay the suspicion that the set was a jungle scene that was shipped by mistake to the wrong lot. The employer proves to be a lecherous old party and real damage is only prevented by the arrival of a very righteous and breathless hero...
While "Big Bill" Thompson exulted loudly over having nominated "his man" and rolled his eyes in anticipation of long happy days at Springfield, the righteous Republican Chicago Daily News grieved aloud at the primary result in a front-page editorial entitled "Dead on the Field of Dishonor" and beginning...
...that it prefers to maintain the racial purity of its faith, that its outlook is difficult for a goy to adopt. One finds religious satisfaction best in one's own group. Unlike Christians, Jews do not seek to save the world. They are satisfied that the souls of righteous men will be taken care of, no matter what their faith.* If, however, a non-Jew is determined to embrace Judaism, and if no ulterior motive (such as intermarriage) is evident, he may be accepted by local rabbis, whose decision is, as far as Jewry is concerned, final...
...large proportion of the profits, the Diet decreed, would be spent for "temperance purposes," thereby providing the thirsty Finn with the satisfaction of knowing that if he tippled he did so in a righteous cause...
Cases still pending last week were in Denver, Jersey City, N. J. and Washington where the Post, copying a biennial custom of righteous Washington Star, had begun a "crusade." Owlish District Attorney Leo A. Rover bought one of the offending magazines in a drugstore, read it on his way home. Whatever his first reactions may have been, the effect of finding his young daughter reading the same magazine was galvanic. He ordered the arrest of 150 newsdealers, six of whom were to be tried this week. In partial defense against the obscenity charge Publisher George T. Delacorte Jr. could point...