Word: righteously
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Irwin Shaw, produced by The Group Theatre) is an embarrassing attempt to mix farce, comedy and lofty social sentiments. A beautiful Ohio WPA administrator takes a vacation in Florida, where she is wooed by a valve manufacturer, a playboy and a fatuous young leftist-one of those self-righteous kibitzers who continually feels obliged to tell other people exactly what is wrong with them and with society. He wins the girl, only to spurn her in order to become a sort of wandering heart-of-the-world...
...This righteous and easy life did not satisfy Boltz. He discovered the stockmarket, and, in the '20s, made money at it. Soon he began to tell his friends about his North America Investment Fund, Inc., of his success in increasing its original $100,000 assets to over $1,000,000 by 1929. They bought $165,000 worth of its preferred stock. The common was good for loans from conservative National Bank of Germantown & Trust Co., from big, respectable Philadelphia National Bank...
...After numerous narrow escapes, he succeeded in his personal crusade, winning at the same time the Alcante's innocent niece. Tyrone Power is the gay young caballero and he gives the part all he has. But much more convincing is the corpulent Padre, Eugene Pallette, who feels righteous in clouting half an army over the head, so long as he says fervently with each blow, "God bless me." Linda Darnell is impressive by her beauty, if not her acting...
...comprehend that Canada was not Tsardom, redcoated Mounties not Cossacks, census-takers not conscription officers, homestead laws not a landlord's tyranny. All Dukhobor benefactors (including Tolstoy) were soon fed up, regretted having burdened Canada with them. Said their former friends: "The sect ... is self-centred, self-righteous, and intolerant." "No more impenetrable group of people exist...
...Redcoat's, not a Yankee's. Without mentioning the Declaration of Independence, Lamb subtly offers the other side of its blistering list of grievances against the "Tyrant," George III. Lamb's own grievance is that, while the Revolution was right, its professed justification was righteous...