Word: cabal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under its present organization, the H. D. C. is guided in its choice of plan and policy by the opinions of a cabal-like Executive Committee. Although such concentration of power has been unintentional, it has nevertheless deprived forty ordinary members of almost all say as to what, when and why the productions of the Club shall be. Cheerfully resenting the dissipation of their ten-dollar membership fee toward a production they may have had no liking for, this rank and file has not been able to give their best to the Club...
...Washington was in love with Sally Fairfax, wife of his close neighbor and friend; they discreetly evade speculation on whether his feelings for Martha were no more than dutiful. Stanch alibiers for his military blunders, they uncritically dislike Washington's critics Jefferson, Lee, Gates, Sam Adams, the Conway Cabal, et al. But their biography is the most compact and exact thus far (with 130 pages of notes which, as usual in scholarly biographies, are frequently more interesting than the text). And they display real imaginativeness in portraying Washington as a great, human central figure against his remote 18th-Century...