Word: righteousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again be deposited in a man so grotesquely visionary that he takes no account of his decisive defeats and asks for permission to butt his head against the wall that raised such a welt on it last time. Henry P. Fletcher may sound a little too panicky and self-righteous in his protests over the use of soldier boys in the torchlight rally preceding the President's speech. But his objections to the warmed-over panacea are sound. Liberty Leaguer Shouse wins the same commendation by essentially the same stand. And Herbert Hoover continues to refurbish his badge of integrity...
...social security at best. But when funds are bounced around from project to project with the hit-and-miss efficiency of startled rabbits, and workers are fired in Manhattan and hired in Brooklyn at the same moment, those whose life blood depends on federal cash rise up in righteous anger at their treatment...
...recent press conference put her finger right on the ultimate function of such an organization. In expressing the hope that the movement would bring down to earth many false notions concerning patriotism and loyalties, the first lady has expressed the increasingly ardent wish of many Americans. If the self-righteous Legionnaires and the Daughters of the American Revolution, or, as S. N. Behrman has called them, "the women with the affiliated bodies," cannot be persuaded to desert the high seats they have arrogated to themselves, as a last resort they must be laughed out of the arena...
...Force of the Senate, the one member who could arise and deal with Right & Wrong in an electric way. Now the conscience of the country has been placed in other pockets. No Senator gave longer and more loving thought to the Constitution and its preservation as a source of righteous power. Yet during the last three years of New Deal tinkering, Senator Borah's voice has rarely risen above the Washington hubbub in constitutional warning or criticism. After he had helped to keep the U. S. out of the League of Nations, world governments learned that the ursine Senator...
Supernatural Imagination. This prelude was in the style of a Wagnerian soliloquy. The next evil undoer of righteous Germany to be taken up was Bolshevism, by which, roared Siegfried Hitler, "the world of supernatural imagination is torn apart, a God is dethroned, Religion and Church are rooted out-thus laying waste the world beyond. . . . Imperial and kingly domains fall and eradicate themselves-even from memory! . . . Democracies are relinquished. . . . Terrors of unemployment . . . terrors of hunger. . . . Astounded peoples see that the God of War has not abandoned His armament but, on the contrary, strides over the earth more heavily armed than ever...