Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish Insurgent forces, dependent upon foreign intervention, constitutes a deliberate affront to the legitimate Government of a friendly power, is a gross breach of international traditions and marks a further stage in a policy which is steadily destroying in all the democratic countries confidence in the good faith of Britain...
...race against death, when the Government may demand up to 20% in inheritance taxes and creditors can no longer be stalled. Even more, it is a race against dwindling confidence. Judge Shearn has abandoned a large part of the Hearst empire, and well he knows how ephemeral is the faith that holds the rest of it together. To restore confidence in a name that for half a century has stood for the exploitation of human gullibility to gratify one man's caprice is a job to make anyone's hair fall out. Judge Shearn was bald when...
...parting shot at the dictators he added: "By setting an example of international solidarity, cooperation, mutual trust and mutual helpfulness, we may keep faith alive in the heart of anxious and troubled humanity, and at the same time lift democracy high above the ugly truculence of autocracy...
Gradually Martha Dodd got over her Nazi measles, and by the time of the Purge (1934), she was even more violently anti-Nazi than her father. A trip to Russia, on which she never once removed her rose-colored spectacles, confirmed her in the anti-faith. She describes horrific tortures inflicted on concentration-camp prisoners ("a few I know of directly"), thinks "there is still a good deal of organized opposition among the people in Germany...
...would like to come to Harvard," announced Faith Bacon, well known fandancer and artiste last night, "but some of the less liberal minded professors might object...