Word: diehardism
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Determined to give full value, the au thor has trimmed his sexy romance with conscientious trappings of history. The action runs from 1866 to 1874 and is bound up with the bloody struggle in Louisiana between Negro freedmen, corrupt carpetbaggers and diehard slave owners. The leading figures are exquisite: evil Hugh Duncan, who employs the terrorist Knights of the White Camellia, and Laird Fournois, masterful friend of the black...
Welcome Invasion. Some diehard conservatives look balefully on all this progress. Caught in a midtown traffic jam one day, Geologist Emmet Tatum, a Houston resident for 17 years, cried: "Progress, hell! I wish every one of the bustling so-and-so's would go back where they came from...
...Rothermeres' diehard Tory friends had for years spoken of Owen as "that notorious leftist." They could only hope that Esmond and Ann Rothermere knew what they were doing. At least, the Rothermeres knew what they wanted: more zip and more readers for the Daily Mail (now 1,900,000), which has lagged far behind Beaverbrook's giant Express (3,700,000) and the tabloid, Labor-loving Mirror (3,400,000) since the Government took the lid off circulations. Hard-handsome, hard-talking, hard-drinking Frank Owen, once an eager Beaver-boy himself, seemed...
Like most of these brilliant irreverents and fantasists, W. S. Gilbert was a diehard conservative by conviction, a palace-revolutionary by temperament. When Gilbert heard that suffragettes had chained themselves to the railings in Downing Street, crying "Votes for Women!" he barked: "I shall chain myself to the railings outside Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital and yell 'Beds for Men!' " Gilbert's tributes to Queen and Country were usually proffered on the end of a spear. He satirized royalty, the peerage, the law, the clergy, bureaucrats, the Army & Navy...
...meeting, in defeated Germany, of bored G.I.s, wary D.P.s and diehard SS men supplies obvious possibilities for an adventure story, and this one makes the most of them. Author Millar, 35, fought with the British in Egypt, with the Maquis in France, and wrote two exciting autobiographical books about it (Waiting in the Night, Horned Pigeon). His first novel, and his third book to be published in the U.S. in the past year, packs all its action and reflection into one week in May 1945, in a secluded Austrian valley -less than a week after...