Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where it is often crucial. The white gentlemen, exponents of the "New South," urged Mr. Hoover to buttress and continue the revolt against the "black machines" of the South, to cultivate the "lily-white" movement by which it is hoped to Republicanize permanently many a Southern Democrat whose party faith was shaken by Rum and Romanism...
Hypersensitive Hedda resents Lovborg's success. Once her lover, he has turned to stupid little Mrs. Elvstead, who discusses him maternally with Hedda. Jealous, Hedda makes Lovborg believe that Mrs. Elvstead has lost faith in him. He gets drunk, loses the manuscript of his second book. When he comes to her, Hedda gives him a pistol and the injunction to use it "beautifully." He uses it, not beautifully, and Hedda soon destroys herself...
...Indianapolis, last week, the apostolic, frock-coated figure of Evangelist Paul Rader, onetime prize fighter, dominated a group of determined antievolutionists. Defenders of the Christian Faith, they called themselves. Their plan: "To establish 48 nerve centres [one in each State] for the suppression of pernicious teachings that are undermining the very moral fibre of our youth...
...Zivkovitch was about to unlock, stealthily, a palace back door in Belgrade, and admit the assassin of Alexander Obrenovitch and Queen Draga. As a Karageorgevitch, however, Dictator-King Alexander can scarcely fail to see in this deed the hand of Divine (Greek Orthodox) Providence. So great indeed is his faith that, upon ascending the throne, he did not hesitate to make General Zivko vitch commander of the royal guard, a post which the general retains today. However, a new palace has been built, and Alexander Karageorgevitch does not sleep in the same royal bed as did murdered Alexander Obrenovitch...
...years that incredulity must again be to the fore. All the same M. Muchanoff allowed himself to be most significantly quoted by the militant Fascist daily Il Tevere. At the very least his words served notice to Italians that a Roman Catholic princess need not switch to the Orthodox faith in order to become Bulgaria's petite Tsarina...