Word: clingingly
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...Americans who still cling to the ancient facts in honesty take heart! This Administration not only speaks to you about justice. It dares to defy the power of concentrated wealth and privilege to secure it. In your name it tells the beneficiary of fraud to surrender his booty...
...cried to Tennessee's Bachman nodding in the chair, "I summons you to return to the teachings of our fathers and cling at this hour close to them in obedience and pray fidelity to the guidance of the directors of our destiny-our fathers of Government and our Father in Heaven. From this security we may know that as the Sentinel of passing days, aye of passing days, passing his rounds upon the watch tower of civilization, conning the ominous signs of the times, shall hear rung out the challenge: 'Watchman. what of the night?' Angels grant...
...Italy can manipulate France into a conciliatory mood, these reforms might be effected. France, however, has consistently weaned the League away from its international purpose and used it as a bulwark of protection against any attack upon her gains in the Versailles Treaty. Therefore she will most likely cling to the status quo, build up her armaments even more, and watch her cherished League pass away...
...University's attitude, but it will come; it will be dictated by the kind of club dining which students have been led to expect in the Houses. Until that happy day, the University may follow one of two roads. It may lag behind, play safe, and cling to its 'scutcheen. Or it may take the lead in teaching its students temperance by allowing them to indulge in quiet, legal drinking with their meals. One is inclined to hope that yesterday's manifesto will not commit the University to the former path...
...Ellington's music to that of British Composer Frederick Delius. Scholarly musicians are looking forward to a Duke Ellington review which is scheduled for New York next season. Such lofty recognition has injected no jarring, self-conscious note into Ellington's performances. Ellington and his players cling to the Negro dialect. Hot obligates are still "riffs" to them. Dapper Sonny Greer, probably the world's greatest drummer, still shouts "Send me, man!" when he is about to launch a percussive volley. Ellington's own soft-spoken orders are a far cry from those used by white...