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...that Biographer Nicholson makes his glowing portrait of Old Hickory. And there is in the drawing no chiaroscuro of virtue and vice. Just as Andrew Jackson believed a thing to be all black or all white, so he has been painted all whiteman. His fiery tempers are matters of righteous indignation; his gullibility a matter of holding a man right until he is proved wrong...
...starbright brook, and plan to marry when the hay is in. Not till weeks after Joe has been killed horribly in an accident, does Naomi realize to her joy that he lives on in the child she bears. But her joyless parents, stiff-necked with the sour self-righteous Protestantism of the '80s, snatch up the offer of "noble" Caleb to take Naomi and give her bastard a name. Naomi suffers untold husbandly violations from Caleb, but comforts herself that some day she will tell Brook, her daughter and Joe's, of the beautiful passion...
...TIME with a Christian curb upon one's righteous anger, how much the World has lost in losing Amundsen and how much gained by the rescue of Nobile...
Didactic, self-righteous, he could have named his papers Citizen, Tribune, Sentinel, Monitor, Leader, Pilot...
...speculator, a certain Dr. Fred Puleston* is violently convinced of fraud. In righteous indignation he marshals evidence to prove "that bleary old Műnchausen . . . an unmitigated liar" who has "grossly slandered Livingston, Stanley, Cecil Rhodes." The slander: that Livingston married a black, that Stanley was a murderer, that Rhodes, drunk on prickly-pear brandy, had to be rescued from the crocodile. Employed for many years by the English firm (Hatton & Cookson) which sent "Horn" to Africa, Puleston declares that the recorded exploring expeditions, river charting, native battles, elephant hunts, "gorilla purveys," and rescue of a captive English girl, were...