Word: diehardism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...KNOW YOU WILL DO A GOOD JOB AND THAT YOU WILL PROVE TO A LOT OF OLD FASHIONED DIEHARD HALF MUMMIFIED PROFESSORS AND OTHER SUPPOSED TO BE EDUCATORS IN THIS COUNTRY THAT BY THE USE OF PICTURES AND RADIO YOU CAN RE-EDUCATE MANY MILLIONS. DO NOT WORRY ABOUT THE THEATRES ALL ENTERPRISING THEATRES WILL WORRY...
...worth his salt can close his eyes to it. Many a "proletarian novel" is rightly thrown out of the literary court as mere advertising for the Communist cause; but the literary sergeants-at-arms will think twice before they begin hustling Robert Cantwell's Land of Plenty. Though diehard right-wingers will call it propaganda, most readers will find it troubling, critics of all stripes will pronounce it a first-rate novel. As social criticism, The Land of Plenty will rouse plenty of disagreement, but as a tragically true story of human beings it will hit home to most...
There would be little progress without a group of radicals to speed up diehard conservatives and reactionaries. Washington and Lincoln were more radical than any present-day student has the brains to be; half the good writers are radical, and nine-tenths of the good professors. If the U.C. editors want to pick on liberals, they can find a long list of them...
...Irish Republican Army," a diehard minority that has never accepted the Free State Government of bushy-haired President William Thomas Cosgrave, has gained hundreds of recruits. Little groups of solemn-eyed young men have been drilling seriously in clearings in the woods. First serious trouble came four months ago when Republicans and Orangemen rioted at Portadown, County Armagh (TIME, Aug. 24). That trouble spread. Just as in the bloody days of 1916, men were found dead in the ditches. On Armistice Day, Dublin was in a turmoil. Crowds surged up & down O'Connell Street, cheering, singing "Down King...
...bogeyman Napoleon faded from memory and young Reform lifted its head, old diehard Tory Wellington lost his popularity. Twice his windows were broken by a mob; on Waterloo's anniversary he was trailed home by hooting hoodlums. The Duke, impervious to mobs, merely thought the country was going to the dogs. But before he died at 83, public opinion had swung round again: he was universally respected and, as only a public character can be, beloved...