Word: righteouseness
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...discredit of England that her benevolent despotism (with emphasis on the word benevolent) has, except for occasional righteous outbursts, permitted her to fall for the "sales talk" of a few impractical dreamers, and gradually switch the governing of the country from the hands of those who know the futility of altruism to a class whose ideals are motivated by a desire to be rid of an oppressively progressive people...
...much he may privately agree with Alexander Hamilton's aristocratic theory of government, a president must, as a political officeholder, appear before the voting public as an apostle of Thomas Jefferson's Democratic doctrines. He must seem to exalt the mob's wisdom, bow to its righteous power, inflate its sense of selfimportance, cater to its emotional reflexes...
...both sexes, to achieve spiritual relief by blurting out their sex histories at weekend "house parties" (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). This gave the society an unsavory reputation among many outsiders. To others it seemed ridiculous. Many an undergraduate and alumnus has spattered mud, flour, beer on the allegorically righteous bronze figure of the Christian Student, which stands across the road from Murray-Dodge Hall, small brownstone. neo-Gothic citadel of the society (TIME. Dec. 2). Two facetious undergraduates once conducted a campaign for the presidency and vice presidency of the organization which was so effective that it ended by unanimous...
Through its protagonists the censorship conflict threw into relief two phases of western culture-the Old West, personified by Senator Smoot, Utah-born. Mormon-educated, moral, righteous; and the New West, personified by Senator Cutting, New York-born, Harvard-educated, "sophisti-cated," broadminded...
...homes of friends, according to the will of the hostess," at resorts to which young Baltimore men friends escort them, privily, by stealth, Goucher College girls have usually smoked if they wanted to. Their worst fear of detection has been that some righteous schoolmate might see and report then. Seldom has this happened for Goucher is a big college [enrolment: 985] in the middle of a busy city. Keeping in stride with other pragmatic women's colleges, last week Acting President* Hans Froelicher announced that as long as smoking did not "interfere with routine class work," or create fire...