Word: bulwarked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thereafter he had only the kindest words to say of that section of the U. S. which reveres both the Mason-Dixon and the color lines: "Was it not the Solid South, bulwark and Gibraltar of Democracy, that gave us Franklin Delano Roosevelt as President of the U. S.?* I need not tell you how that solid, united support of the South saved our Nation from destruction. . . . It was a Virginian, George Washington. . . . It was another Virginian, Thomas Jefferson. . . . It was Old Hickory Jackson, from Tennessee. . . . We need, above all else, peace. . . . Our great Secretary of State, Cordell Hull...
With the exception of Lupien and McTernen, the Varsity is far from top form. Last year's offensive bulwark, Bilodeau, Owen, and Colwell, is batting less than .300 in league contests. Unless the team makes a sudden reversal, hopes for the championship are dark...
...BULWARK OF THE REPUBLIC-Burton J. Hendrick-Little, Brown...
...Dealers nor Republicans could make resounding political copy of his book, but New Dealers are sure to like it better. The burden of Mr. Hendrick's epic song is: Fear not. The Constitution has survived much worse storms than this one, is not really so much a bulwark as a life-raft-"a living and fluid instrument, built not for an age, but for all time, responsive to the needs of a changing world." He reminds gloomy headshakers that the U. S. Government has outlasted every European form of the last 150 years...
...Burton Jesse Hendrick has thrice won the Pulitzer Prize, twice for biographies (Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, 1922; The Training of an American, 1928), once for history (coauthor with Admiral William Sowden Sims: The Victory at Sea, 1920). Keen observers of the current literary scene considered that Bulwark of the Republic might well earn Author Hendrick prize...