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Word: righteousness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writer of the article, setting forth grievances which were to apply equally well to his successor 50 years later, and ending up on a note of sincere and righteous indignation, says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Examination Proctors Show No Change in 50 Years--Scribe of 70's Offended by Squeaking Boots and Covert Laughs | 1/27/1927 | See Source »

...What?" we shouted, hardly believing our ears. It is getting so, these days, with the baseball scandal and the biographies of George Washington, that you can't believe anything. Our ears are not as righteous as some cars we know. Our incorruptibility, on the other hand, is a by word--or should we say, perhaps, not a buy-word...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/13/1927 | See Source »

...adds another $500 reward to Governor Walker's $1,000 for the arrest and conviction of the leader of the floggers. Governor Walker, too, is a "proud and noble" Klansman. Hence, the reward offers of these two gentlemen may either be taken as gestures of righteous indignation or as a means of diverting suspicion from guilty fellow-Klansmen. Judge R. E. Hardeman of the Toombs circuit did not hush up such a suspicion when he told the press last week: "It is generally known that between 40 and 50 persons attired in official Ku Klux Klan regalia paraded through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LYNCHING: In Toombs | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...doctrine and every theory which seeks to rob God of His Supreme Majesty as Creator and reflects upon man as His highest creation." In a word, to write an anti-Evolution statute into the nation's law books. Dr. Straton was then brought forth to inflame the gathering's righteous zeal with some of his astonishing pulpit oratory: "Man or Monkey, Which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hint | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...Bride of the Lamb" William Buribut has shown the evils of too much religion of a highly-emotional type; H. L. Mencken has long led his cohorts into righteous battle against unrighteous churches unil even he has tired of the numerous enemies of the churches could have been able to visualize the result of a beauty contest in a small Ohio town. The church, probably seeing goodness and truth in beauty as well as beauty in goodness and truth, was anxious to stimulate interest in higher values. A Miss Little won the contest; her lot and the upshot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEAUTY AND THE CHURCH | 11/6/1926 | See Source »

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