Word: righteously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vexed by sly digs at Nazi measures made by the more daring cafe comedians of Berlin, Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels cried with righteous indignation: "Why don't they make fun of the Jews...
...representative of the largest insurance company in the world, The Metropolitan, I arise in righteous wrath and indignation at the derision contained in your article under the heading of Labor, TIME...
...have been appointed for fixed periods. Dr. Morgan was first to raise the question of White House control over the appointed officers of such corporations as TVA. Although Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson has opined that the President has ample power to get rid of Dr. Morgan, that persistently righteous man holds one ace: a section in the TVA act which says a director may be removed by concurrent House and Senate resolution, says nothing about Presidential power to fire...
...their acid comments, Low's cartoons have usually had an owlish, good-natured air that kept them from being really bitter. He presented people as stupid and self-righteous rather than wicked or frightening. For years his satire has been summed up in Colonel Blimp, a pathetically pompous old walrus who inhabits a Turkish bath and periodically sounds off. "Gad, sir," exclaims the Colonel, in a cartoon called Onward, Colonel Blimp! "the reason our government is always getting kicked in the pants is that it doesn't stand with its back to the wall." Although Low has carried...
When he was growing wealthy and in danger of arrest, she tried to burn his incriminating papers, failed, and watched him go to prison. For the seven years that he was there, frightened Julie rebounded between the stuffy, self-righteous world of her sister, and the rebellious, desperate, exciting world to which Goldberg had introduced her. An Irish boy fell in love with her, carried her off to Ireland to live with his parents until she could make up her mind to marry him. Julie loved him too, loved Ireland, tried to disinfect her speech and thoughts to conform with...