Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's prize for hotbox rhetoric went to Alexander Fell Whitney, 76-year-old president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Anybody who voted for the Senate's new Taft labor bill, cried he, "broke faith with democracy and followed in the goose step of Naziism...
...early to tell what the plan has done for British health, but in an editorial called "The State Is My Shepherd" McPherrin says that there are "definite signs that it has done something to their faith in themselves." If the U.S. should ever adopt the same kind of a scheme, "we must be prepared to accept the same increases in taxes and government controls. But of much greater significance is the depressing effect upon the spirit of the people. Britons want security, but we do not think they have found it . . . To the extent that any man accepts the doctrine...
Solid Ground. "Man needs faith," said Ortega, "he needs belief as a soil and a solid ground where he may stretch his limibs and rest." Man is constantly getting lost, he conceded, but being lost is actually a "dramatic privilege" and not an evil. When lost, the man who has faith turns himself into an instrument of orientation "to guide him and to return him to himself ... If man had not been lost, countless times, on land and sea, the points of the compass would never have been developed...
...recollect that any civilization ever perished from an attack of doubt," Ortega said. "I recollect that civilizations usually die through the ossification of their traditional faith, through an arteriosclerosis of their beliefs...
...green-covered American Mercury that he edited became an undergraduate bible for the bright boys of the '20s and early '30s. He scorned marriage ("Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't they'd be married, too"). But he shook the faith of many an admirer when he married at 50 and said: "I have often imagined that I would be as perfect a husband as a woman could find." Otherwise, as his Chrestomathy proves, he has been consistent in his peeves and gripes through several decades. But Mencken seldom descended...