Word: righteously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eliminates occasional associates with sad-eyed sadism. With his town's financial and civic agencies pretty well in thrall he makes the social error of trying to snare a fine-feathered society girl (Gail Patrick), accidentally spills a little salt on his own tail, ends up where the righteous Hays office likes to see all enemies of society...
...election of Senior officers is the most important in Harvard, it is also the most democratic. No more righteous way of honoring Seniors seems possible. The Student Council selects the obvious candidates, and petitions signed by only twenty-five names round out their list. Unlike the Freshman farces, Senior elections guarantee, if the Class cooperates by voting intelligently, that the right men will be Marshals, Chorister, Odist, Treasurer, Orator, and Poet...
...young officer from a Civil War battlefield to tell him so. But before it begins gesturing at its stagy moral, Of Human Hearts does a patient, workmanlike job of reconstructing life in an early 19th-Century Ohio River outpost. Of Human Hearts follows the lives of a stalwart, righteous circuit rider (Walter Huston), his wife (Beulah Bondi) and his son Jason (as a boy, eleven-year-old Gene Reynolds, as a young man, gangling James Stewart), who revolts against a life of hand-me-down clothes, unreasonable re- straints, two-fisted godliness. When Jason goes to war, the action, divided...
Members of the staff of New York's District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey, who is gradually emerging into national prominence as a righteous combination of St. George and Charlie Chan, at 3 one morning last week rapped on the door of a shabby apartment in West Philadelphia. "Open up," they said, "this...
...bung in this barrel of trouble is not the attitude of the Faculty, whose good nature tends to conquer their large and righteous anger at being paged like Information Clerks. What's the matter is that if all the red tape in the world were laid end to end University Hall would need half. So unbelievable is the complication of the study card system that Dean Phelps has to give students from the first week in December until the second in February to do the paper work of choosing four courses. Instead of one sharp pain the process...