Word: loyality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convinced that if he were given men who, while remaining loyal to the national cause, were at the same time in his confidence, we would see our country governed by Filipinos and himself exercising only an advisory power to check possible abuses...
...retirement. Last week, however, he followed the bier of an old friend and broke his long silence as he stood beside the open grave. The dead man thus greatly honored was M. Gustave Geffroy, 71, Président de 1'Académie Goncourt, Administrateur de la Manufacture des Gobelins,* a loyal associate of M. Clemenceau in his long fight to secure the freedom of Captain Dreyfus...
...Jubilant, Editor Mencken picked up his hat and went out to luncheon. He was having lunch that day at the Harvard Union. Now, long before he had committed his offense on the common, long before the trial, the loyal students of Harvard had planned this luncheon in honor of one whom they regarded as a martyr of prudery. They were sure that he would be convicted. When Judge Parmentier's decision reached them, the campus took on the electric glory that thrills it on days when the Harvard football eleven has won a match. The huge hall at the Union...
Turati. As the loyal mechanic stepped down, there stepped up into his place Signor Augusto Turati of Brescia, a newspaper man of milder temper. It was asserted widely last week that this exchange is designed to mark the end of what has been called the "Fascist phase of terror." The moderate Fascist clique, headed by Minister of Interior Luigi Federozoni, is announced to have won Mussolini over to a slightly less harsh and repressive policy. Last week the event of significant note was merely that Farinacci did as he was told, resigned. Observers opined that he will certainly be rewarded...
...itinerant actress and a disinherited Baltimore mooncalf. The child was sheltered, not adopted, by hardheaded John Allan of Richmond. He was insecure in a town of lordly livers. And what went deeper, at home and at school his mother's calling was made his shame. Psychoanalysis calls his loyal passion for her dead purity a "fixation." Another woman once laid a kind hand upon his head, and upon her too he "fixed" after her death...