Word: loyality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maine, famed national political bellwether, last week chose, without instructing, its 15 delegates to the Republican convention. The 15 met straightway and telegraphed their support, "loyal," "unswerving," to Candidate Hoover...
...debate itself, ranging from tables of statistics to the poetry of dropkicking, proved more than anything else that the Stadium proposal had not excited the Harvard graduates of the future. It is a matter that has deeply agitated some loyal alumni, and more and more appears to be of exclusive interest to the graduates. The Corporation can now face the question squarely, as Mr. Withington put it last night: Is football primarily a game for the undergraduates to play, or a spectacle for loyal, returning alumni to enjoy? Underlying all the arguments was that question, the old problem...
Very typical are these lines. Miss Bell was loyal to a fault toward those she trusted, womanly, and at times highly emotional. She came upon the scene in Irak after the tumult and the shooting had begun to wane; but the present prevailing peace in King Faisal's realm is very largely founded on her broad conciliatory liaison work. Dozens of the letters are pure feminine chatter, but it is never idle chatter...
...University on being shown some broken 100-year-old dinner plates dug up in the backyard of University Hall, that he ordered the Wedgewood Potteries of Staffordshire, England, to manufacture 42,000 old-fashioned plates bearing pictures of new Harvard buildings. Many of these plates will be sold to loyal sons of John Harvard...
Captain Brown wrote, published, told salt yarns. My Ditty Bag-dedicated to his "loved and loyal wife who sailed for Australia with me a week after our marriage, and who has been a good shipmate during these many years"-has an exciting chapter "Fishy" ending with a quoted instruction for "landing" the biggest possible swordfish aboard a dory in the open ocean: "Fasten his tail over the gunwale to the afterthwart; put his sword over your shoulder; put your big finger in his eyeball; grab him with your other hand near his tail; when she rolls to leeward pull hard...