Word: righteousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Looking across the border at the tumultuous U.S. strike scene (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Canadians could lift a righteous eyebrow. On their own labor front, trouble was down to an almost irreducible minimum...
Austere Rev. Dr. Alexander James Wilson, editor of the United Church Observer (circ: 38,000) in Toronto, heard about it, did some commendable leg work, found that Moo Cow was indeed listed (No. 15) in the young people's song sheet. Then he unleashed his righteous editorial wrath...
Pappy promptly entered a righteous protest: "She hypnotized me." Then he instructed his lawyer to inform Mrs. Malcomson's lawyer that there would be no wedding. Hurriedly he bundled Frances off Las Vegas, got married before a justice of peace...
...outcast Indian girl who is tormented and finally stoned by her self-righteous neighbors, Delores Del Rio is beautiful. She has been deglamorized to the point of allowing a mole on the side of her nose to be photographed, but even in Hollywood her well-modeled face was never lovelier or more expressive. Visual beauty is the best thing about Portrait of Maria, which is the sort of picture that looks better in the lobby stills than it does on the screen. There are handsome shots of Lake Xochimilco and some well-photographed, well-directed crowd scenes. The picture...
...address was far less truculent and self-righteous than the one he delivered on the same occasion six years ago. Then Molotov, justifying the Berlin-Moscow pact, pictured Russia as an island in a hostile capitalist world. In 1945, Molotov actually recognized that there were other peaceful states, although he was not ready to concede that they were entirely free from the imperialist taint...