Word: loyalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idolized Rhodes, and Rhodes was fanatically loyal to his worshipers (he let the biggest gold deal of his life fall through by racing away to a dying friend). But with nonworshipers, he was utterly cynical. He named his riding horses after the men he had bribed; he "bought" the entire South African press ("There is no reason why one should not be properly reported"). When Irish Nationalist Charles Stewart Parnell complained that his divorce had made him unpopular with Roman Catholics, Rhodes exclaimed: "Can't you square the Pope...
...that the free elections promised soon by the Warsaw Government would be free in a country governed behind a curtain of secrecy. It denied that the Warsaw Government represented a majority of the Poles in Poland. It called upon all Poles in the armed forces outside Poland to remain loyal to the Government in Exile...
...More Children. By clinging tightly to its determinedly loyal following, O'Connor, Moffatt's has managed to pay off most of the debt from its new building, even to prosper with the tide of Bay Area war money. But ruddy, O'C.M. President Joseph V. Costello, who knew lean days in prewar San Francisco, decided to sell out. Reason: in his 60s, President Costello has only one nephew who is interested in the business. Said a competitor: "This was a good time to sell. It's just one of those deals where the family finally runs...
...soft-shoe rhythms and barbershop harmonies of the period. But even such authentic musical backdrops as Moonlight Bay and Shine On, Harvest Moon, tinkled on pianolas or wheezed through the gaping morning-glory horns of pristine phonographs, are powerless to give conviction or pathos to the story of loyal Sally's heartbreak or Angel Raft's dalliance with the snobbish Nob Hill hussy, Harriet Carruthers (Joan Ben-nett...
Doctor of Laws: Clarence D. Howe, Ottawa, Canadian Minister of Munitions and Supply: "A gifted son of New England, a loyal and effective citizen of Canada; an engineer who hurled munitions against Hitler long before we fired a shot...