Word: righteously
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Some dominies were humorous. Buddha, they readily grasped, was something to joke about-a funny cross-legged little figure like a Billiken. Others were taciturn, others sorrowful, others inspired to righteous wrath; but on one point all were agreed - it would be a horrible thing to permit the effigy of so noted an infidel to appear in the midst of a Christian city. It would be like reminding men of the lost rites of Astarte, like resurrecting the god, Priapus, or setting up the image of the Golden Bull of Tyre...
...leave him in Europe, later have an idyll with a boy-artist, who in turn leaves you, then it is a natural thing to settle quietly on the French Riviera. There your past blends with the background. You anoint your conscience with self-pity. You maneuver and wait in righteous patience for the boy-artist-or something equivalent-to seek you out. After years of waiting, you become very, very lonely...
There is only one consideration to detract from the righteous joy of all self-appointed administrators of the law: University 4 will not recognize their credentials...
...George W. Wickersham, one time Attorney General, faced the Conference, affirmed that some wars are righteous and that therefore all wars should not be outlawed-wars of defence, wars in which a country goes to the aid of a weaker nation oppressed by a strong...
...undergraduate journalist fulminating on a newly-discovered injustice. It was not even a self-righteous young instructor writing to a pinko-political weekly about his just deserts. It was Dr. William Allan Neilson, President of Smith College. Dr. Neilson is also President of the Modern Language Association of America; he was addressing his fellow-scholars in that body where they sat convened in Manhattan. He was discussing a feature of a report lately published by the American Association of University Professors, against whom he said he "bore a grudge" for their unwillingness to share the burden of faculty dismissals...