Word: righteousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the Hearst newspapers struck an attitude of righteous indignation, began castigating Hecate as "printed filth." The book sold more than 50,000 copies, became the subject of excited argument from coast to coast...
...bringing together of all Western Hemisphere nations in a democratic group, worked, in effect, when it was administered by Welles (along with some shrewd and cold-hearted Welles meddling in internal Latin American affairs). It was least effective when it was merely pronounced in righteous terms by Cordell Hull, who had an unhappy faculty of alienating sensitive Latinos with the Tennessee mountain vigor of his epithets...
...brilliantly erratic liberal, and his fellows that Novelist Marquand saves his none-too-gentle satire. "The truth was that all liberals were turning into self-righteous, complacent social snobs, and each faction was the only one that understood America." Much later, when Tom has walked out on Polly to sleep with his secretary, she sees him and his crowd clearly: "All at once enthusiasms and loyalties and beliefs became very tiresome. The intelligentsia, the bright planners, working on those streamlined blueprints for the brave new world, were always repeating themselves. . . . There was something mechanical about Tom and all those boys...
Voting for good old Harry? So we assume because certainly you're not voting Republican. May-be you'll go for Henry in the next election--Harvard is not known as the "Crimson college" just because it likes the color red. I remain rich, Republican, and righteous--just because you say so. Paul C. Hudson '47. Princeton...
...cornerstones of Hearstian journalism is righteous editorial indignation which leads to crusades and, hopefully, to bigger circulation figures. Hearst editors are prepared at a moment's notice to turn the heat up under such standbys as vivisection and habit-forming drugs. Last week they were given a new target: salacious books...