Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...49er, and a Native Son I feel impelled to go to the aid of that local lady who fears her Eastern kin may fear to visit Frisco because she is living in the "toughest part of town" (TIME, March 13). I'll calm her fears right off the reel. Neither she nor her relatives need fear any toughness in this city. There ain't no such thing any more. This town is as tame now as a long tailed lamb. All its toughness was rubbed out long ago along with all its romance and color by the Scizzorbills...
...vigorously opposes the war referendum amendment proposed by Indiana's Representative Ludlow. She further says: "I wonder whether we have decided to hide behind neutrality? It is safe, perhaps, but I am not sure that it is always right to be safe...
...short, Mrs. Roosevelt, oracle to millions of housewives, would bring them face to face with Right and Wrong as a world issue. "Not to do so," she says, "would be, for me, not to live, but to have a sort of oyster-like existence." If nothing else will preserve Right, she would approve...
...recently shown ingratitude; 3) King Zog had been hoarding Italian loans meant to develop the country for his own private uses; 4) Prominent Albanians had pleaded with Dictator Mussolini to come over and straighten things out. Of all the Italian explanations, the best was that Rome had a "sacred right" there because Albania was subdued by Romans in 229 B.C. So, for that matter, was Britain...
Cheap. For months Dictator Mussolini has eyed well-armed French Tunisia, has made passes at French Somaliland, has shouted for a share in the Suez Canal. He got nowhere while Partner Hitler snatched territory right & left. In Albania he got a cheap victory; he also gave a ringing answer to Britain's anti-aggression moves and served notice that Rome and Berlin were still on the offensive...