Word: hidebound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...street when he saw a Hicksite coming, the sharp distinction between conservative and liberal dulled with time. Only an expert eye can detect the small religious difference between Herbert Hoover and Haverford College, both Orthodox, and onetime Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and Swarthmore College, both Hicksite. Even in hidebound Philadelphia, for friendship as well as economy, Hicksite and Orthodox Monthly Meetings have been worshipping together during the past few years. Last week the Yearly Meetings of the two sects in Philadelphia officially legalized this unity. Final step in the merger of the two societies, possible next year, will...
...Harrisburg last week aging Governor Gifford Pinchot had, after 32 years, put aside his liberal beliefs long enough to make his peace with the Regular Republicans. Gifford Pinchot became a Progressive with Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. For years he has plagued one of the most conservative and hidebound States of the Union with his own individual brand of radicalism. When Franklin Roosevelt entered the White House Governor Pinchot flirted outrageously with the New Deal, evidently in the hope of winning some sort of Democratic support. But President Roosevelt, for once, was not lured across party lines to help a political...
...would be no dearth of news about winners on this year's Grand National by announcing that the Post Office would follow a ''liberal policy'' in construing the statute about lottery information. That let down the bars. Even the New York Sun forgot its hidebound caution long enough to print the lists of U. S. ticket holders in the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes. Last week, when Miss Paget's Golden Miller won the Grand National at Aintree, U. S. newspaper readers once more enjoyed in full the vicarious pleasure of seeing someone else...
...Berlin, got a contract with the Hamburg Opera where for many months she did bit parts, studying the big roles by herself. One day the prima donna who was to sing in Lohengrin suddenly fell ill and Lotte Lehmann took her place. In her fright she forgot all the hidebound traditions, the routine gestures. But she was so young and unaffected, her voice so richly expressive, that the Hamburgers wanted to hear her in other big parts. She was singing Micaela in Carmen one night while the Vienna Opera director sat in the audience. He had come to find...
...such a scholarly work as this cannot hamper his characteristic style: "During the whole of his life Louis XIV was the curse and pest of Europe. No worse enemy of human freedom has ever appeared in the trappings of polite civilization." By his own enemies called a jingo, a hidebound Tory, moonfaced Winston Churchill has always pined for action. For a politician he has seen plenty though he has never headed his party in power or out. As commander of the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers in France in 1916, Descendant Churchill took a soldier's interest in war strategy...