Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today such sardonic defiance of an Absolute Autocrat and a Hypnotist-Monk may seem more witty than significant; but at the time it took titanic courage. No wonder the last, scattered, phantom remnants of the Imperial Army have remained fanatically loyal to Nicholas. Last week, in Nice, the Grand Duke, stricken with pneumonia, sank low, and lower. Oxygen was finally administered and some recovery noted; but tearful, fatalistic members of Nicholas' entourage seemed to sense and fear that the old warrior was joining his last battle with Death...
...vexed have Afghan males grown at the European pants into which they have been put (TIME, Sept. 10) that last week a large portion of the army revolted, seized the capital, Kabul, and chased King Amanullah with Queen Thuraya to an outlying fort, where they took refuge with loyal troops...
...amalgam so incongruous that one can but suspect him of a publicity trick. The suspicion is confirmed by the old sophisticated sentimentalities of style ill-matched to a heroine, beautiful though near-sighted and bespectacled, passionately devoted to her children though they visit the pages but once, loyal to a faithless husband though she begs one of her many admirers to elope with her. Because she loved him, Lily Christine had married a smart model of English manhood, penniless gambler, cricketer, master of many mistresses. Lily Christine ignored these "pieces of nonsense," supplied her "old carthorse" husband with a constant...
Wells Root (Yale 1922), onetime theatre critic for TIME, wrote this cinema of the adventure of the son of a janitor and a girl from a Wild West show in the shadow of Holder Tower. Frank Wright Tuttle (Yale 1915) directed it. Like loyal sons of Eli, the author and director asked permission to shoot the college scenes on their own campus but were turned down by New Haven authorities, annoyed by the many unauthorized pictures which have shown Yale men as debauchees...
...seems that David didn't kill the giant after all. Coming by lucky chance upon dead Goliath, he was clever enough to cut off the giant's head, and claim a superhuman victory. His whole career glittered with similar shrewd opportunism, alternating with cowardly lapses which the loyal Joab covered. Joab did all the killing, David got all the credit...