Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pressmen who followed him around the long loop from Quebec to Halifax were struck by the added poise and self-confidence that George drew from the ordeal. Filled with new pride in their King & Queen, Britons were preparing to give them a monster welcome-with millions lining the railroad right-of-way to London -calculated to top anything the Yankees did for their sovereigns...
...pundits. This job took more time than Poet MacLeish bargained for. But unless he should make a laureateship out of the librarianship, his new job will take hours longer beyond reckoning. Poet MacLeish accepted it because, he said, it is one of those posts which "no man has a right to refuse." That he will skimp it, let technicians do all the dirty work, can be suspected only by persons who have never seen tough-minded, tough-muscled Poet MacLeish at work; who do not know that he was a field artillery captain in the War, before that played water...
...Canada. Radio strove as vigorously as the press for news angles and side slants, but broadcasters generally watched their step more carefully, trod on no regal corns. This was largely due to the fact that many of radio's privileges during the visit depended on keeping on the right side of the State Department...
...believed the early Christian martyrs were right not to lie to save their skins...
...hits over nine innings and bore down when men were on the bases. His mates jumped on Tom Healey and capitalized on some infield lapses to chalk up three runs in the first and one in the second. To all intents and purposes, they sewed up the ball game right then and there...