Word: righteousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nations battling in a righteous cause. Happy those who with that glowing faith in one embrace clasped victory and death...
...beyond recall, in all probability--may regard with virile contempt the Senior Celebration taking place tonight--not in wild and unpopulated regions, as did its famous predecessors,--but in the confined and domesticated area of the Yard. Instead of the unlawful and justly unpopular activities formerly viewed with such righteous indignation by most of the Seniors, there will be moving pictures. Possibly even that incomparable comedy which was conspicuous by its absence at the 1924 Smoker, and which had previously stimulated such merriment at all gatherings since the Freshman year, will be revived. (Some day, a member of the Class...
...Should I prove, by the direct evidence of righteous men, that some prominent citizen is an honest, faithful patriot, no printing press is so mean as to condescend to print it. But should I call a train robber to testify to hearsay that robs a dead man of his honor old Gutenberg immediately hands me his largest, blackest headline type...
Probably there are certain evil persons,--no friends of the present Administration,--who derive a soul-satisfying pleasure from reading carefully every shameful account of corruption, of damaging testimony, of venal politics. Possibly there is a righteous feeling among the publishers that this governmental scandal should have the widest publicity to impress its iniquity upon the public more emphatically. But for the great majority, who are merely sickened by the reappearance of the "sordid detail" after another, who have no axe to grind, and who are well aware that this is not the first instance of corruption in American politics...
...have been ever a valiant soldier of the truth; a "Happy Warrior", strong, serene and steadfast, in the full meaning of the poet's phrase--with, I imagine, something of the Puritan's delight in the joy of righteous conflict. We rejoice that you are still clad in your shining armor; that your soul is radiant with the spirit of youth...