Word: loyalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hardboiled, often embroiled Elisha Hanson, general counsel for the American Newspaper Publishers Association, is soft on pigeons. Exhibiting home-bred prize pouters in Philadelphia, he remarked: "There are philanderers and wantons among pigeons, but not many. Generally they are ... just a little more loyal to each other than the human race...
...loyal Sketch Clubber for 50 years was red-faced, sedate Portraitist Louis Hasselbusch. He never missed a Christmas party; when he died in 1938 he left the club $500 towards the party's upkeep, plus his "pictures, sketches and studio effects." Last week this apparently inconsiderable be quest turned out to be a windfall. In his studio's litter was a small oil painting on a wooden panel, signed H. D., and titled (by Hasselbusch) Conjugal Parisiene (sic). Joyful experts identified it as one of famed Lithographer Honore Daumier's rare paintings. The Sketch Club banked...
Next week, on the 50th anniversary of the Brazilian Republic, every newspaper in Brazil celebrated with bold headlines. President Vargas understood. His country's press was still loyal to the Republic, cared not a snap for his Estado Novo...
...missing ammunition were found in various hideouts. Eire's Army and police were scared that the I. R. A., its fire power thus reinforced, would attempt a coup d'état either in Eire or in neighboring Northern Ireland, the six Protestant-dominated counties stanchly loyal to Great Britain...