Word: loyall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only intimate friends and members of the Royal Family may give King George a birthday present, but every birthday King George distributes many a fine pres-ent to loyal subjects. Last week's birthday honors list, shorter than usual, contained but four new peerages, all baronies: one for George Lane-Fox, former Parliamentary Secretary for Mines; one for Publisher Sir Edward Iliffe of the Daily Telegraph; one for Vice President Sir Ernest Palmer of the Royal College of Music; one for Major General J. E. B. Seely for his work in Britain's vast war loan conversion campaign...
After President Edward Dickinson Duffield of Prudential Insurance Co. consented, as a loyal, energetic alumnus and trustee, to act as Princeton's president ad interim (TIME, May 30, 1932), the Princeton trustees continued to search the field and their feelings for a permanent successor to Dr. John Grier Hibben. Names mentioned ranged all the way from Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover down through a roster of eminent Princeton alumni to handsome young James Henderson Douglas, class of 1920, who made a name for himself as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during the March banking crisis. When the trustees...
...women being supported by some man before they are married and by another afterward, our Mr. Bernheim forgets, I am sure, that the times are changing and that about as many men play the role of parasite these days as do women. When I think of the number of loyal wives and mothers, who have never worked in their lives before, who have scurried bravely around and found some way to keep the home fires burning for their jobless men-folks the past few years, it burns me up to read that even one warped-minded man should have...
Last week, still in the hospital ward, he died. By his bedside was a friend as loyal as his own boast, the darling of his salad days and toast of the old Savoy. Peggy Primrose, now plump Mrs. Peggy Lowe. His last gesture was to refuse an allowance of ?1 a week from the bitter, hollow-cheeked printer who sent him to jail and smashed his career: Reuben Bigland...
...have been several kinds of a fool," said he. "But I might not have come off so badly had I not been so loyal to my friends. That is one of my very few principles and virtues-loyalty to my friends.... I cannot really believe that Mr. H. B. is going to end like this. I could have got anywhere and been anything if I had not made a fool of myself...