Word: loyalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less loyal than their forebears are today's cliffhanger fans. Most of them are U.S. school children, who demand of their heroes the same forthright Boy Scout qualities that ennobled the silent heroes of the serial's palmy days (1913-16): men who do not drink or smoke, fight only in self-defense or to prevent premeditated crime, always rescue heroines in time's nick...
...Even the loyal hardboots were flabbergasted. The Wright colt not only finished eight lengths in front, but ran the mile and a quarter in 2 min., 2/5 sec. (the last quarter in 24 seconds flat). It was 1/5 of a second faster than the Kentucky Derby record set by Twenty Grand just ten years ago. Said Jockey Arcaro, grinning from ear to ear: "He's the runnin'est horse I ever rode...
...story has been told innumerable times of how the Indians can never break the thirty-year streak of Soldiers Field defeats and that, as superior as they may appear before the gun, the jinx will again return to black cat them. But this spring the most loyal Cambridge prophets are wary of the mounting liabilities their favorites must overcome...
Starting at 9:15 o'clock the Ibisters' program lasted for 20 minutes until a loyal technician jerked out a vital tube a half an hour later and put the Network out of its misery...
...years ago the Transcript was given a transfusion of new capital, reorganization, modern format, a price boost from 3? to 5?. But the Transcript, immutably loyal to a vanished Boston, fitted Novelist Marquand's description of Wickford Point: "The whole place was like a clock which was running down, an amazing sort of clock, now devoid of weights or springs or hands, yet ticking on through some ancient impetus on its own momentum...