Word: righteouseness
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...piece de resistance of communist propaganda in this country, at least as a preliminary method of winning sympathy, has been righteous indignation against a discriminating and oppressive officialdom. Unmolested communists can arouse anti-American feeling much less easily. Yesterday's quiet deprived them of one of their most effective types of ammunition. With Mr. Fish matters stood even worse. He lacked wholly that food which his constitution demands more than the best vitamines and calories--evidence of a powerful red menace. It is fortunate that his Congressional report on communist activity in America has already been made...
Quiet, colorless, eminently righteous is the Chicago Evening Post. It boasts the best financial, society and art pages in Chicago but is conservative to the point of impotence in local controversies. Last week bald, tight-lipped John Charles Shaffer, 77, publisher of the Post for 30 years and of the Indiana Star group, let the Post go into receivership, apparently to become a mouthpiece for loud-yawping Mayor William Hale Thompson. The Post had lost money consistently, recently as much as $75,000 a year. Receivers were George Fulmer Getz, millionaire coal dealer, and his partner Charles Fitzmorris, onetime police...
...Story of San Michele, a current "best seller," (TIME, Nov. 24) Dr. Axel Munthe describes with righteous indignation the practice in Italy some years ago of putting out the eyes of song birds, which were then used as decoys for the capture of other birds...
...righteous and an upright man is Mr. Hideo Takahashi of Yamagata. Eight years ago he returned from the U. S. to the city of his birth with enough money to keep him in frugal comfort for the rest of his life. But Hideo Takahashi was not satisfied. Lacking great funds for great philanthropy, he yet wished to do something in his remaining years to express his thanks for the good things life had brought him, something to make life pleasanter for the citizens of Yamagata. He started on a campaign that soon won him the affectionate nickname of Nose Wiper...
Although called a comedy, Through The Night is really a variety of mystery play. Actress Helen MacKellar is wedded to a righteous hypocrite who has been appointed Crime Commissioner of a metropolitan suburb. Having pitched their drama in an urbane setting, Playwrights Golding & Dickey feel free to introduce all the standard elements of bogus stage high life-a crafty butler, a drunken polo player, an. unscrupulous Spanish noblewoman, a millionaire and his wife, a smart lawyer who sympathizes with Actress MacKellar. The story gets under way when the rich neighbors are robbed of their jewelry. Miss MacKellar catches a smooth...