Word: righteousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...necessity they learned to select story-telling details and to set them down recognizably and fast. Later, under the leadership of Painter Robert Henri, they did much the same thing in oils, and dared to call it art. That threw the academic art world of the day into a righteous rage. Henri's group became the "Ashcan School," hooted at by almost everyone...
...Allies have had our sympathy and moral support for the last two years, but the righteous opportunity has come for us to change our attitude. From now on every element of strength should be concentrated on the task of suppressing a military power that has long lost regard for the most fundamental and human rights of other peoples. Sacrifices . . . must be made readily and joyfully . . ." (April...
John L. Lewis is the most even-tempered man in Big Labor-he is always in, emerging from or entering a mood of righteous fury. But even John L. had a hard time last week thinking up some new way of showing his contempt for the big bosses of the American Federation of Labor. Since he had called them "fat and stately asses" and "debased cravens," and they had reduced him to size at the A.F.L. convention two months ago (TIME, Oct. 27), Lewis had stewed angrily, working himself up to the proper pitch for the next explosion...
...Devil's Work. The Devil got around in New Orleans. Sometimes he even got into politics. In 1893, a baby boy was born in the righteous, Bible-pounding hill country north of the city. He grew up and sold a patent medicine for ailing women, worked his way through a three-year law course in eight months, and ten years later ran for governor. He was the people's darling. He was going to make the rich share their wealth with the poor, and make every man a king. His name was Huey Pierce Long and the people...
...course of it, Winant does more to re-establish the reputation of Franklin Roosevelt than all the fevered praise of the writers of their recollections of him, and to recall him as he seemed then-not the toast-drinker of Yalta, or the self-righteous social reformer, but the determined advocate of aid to a Great Britain that was fighting for its life...