Word: loyall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...violent iconoclasm seems puerile; those whom it attacks quite naturally brand the publication with various derogatory appellations when they see the opportunity. With all the criticisms and animadversions which may justly or otherwise, be levelled at its insouciant head it remains a delight to a sizeable band of loyal readers. The first glow of boldness has died away, and the Mercury proceeds undimmed; the fact is that a thoroughly prejudiced and unafraid needing if illusion holds a firm place in the mind of the thinking man, and will continue...
...citizens are apt to forget that even at the end of the Revolutionary War nearly one-third of the population of the 13 States was still loyal to King & Country and, despite the provisions of the Treaty of Paris, suffered a white pogrom at the hands of their exultant Whig neighbors. On May 11, 1783, following arrangements between British General Carleton in New-York and the Governor of Nova Scotia, the "Spring Fleet" carrying refugees from New York dropped anchor at the mouth of the St. John River. Kept aboard their ships by high seas and driving rain, they...
...trouble" in the South dogged him the rest of his life. For a while he came home, passed himself off as the hired man. When the sheriff came for him his loyal family helped him get away. Joe went West, joined the gold rush to the Black Hills. He had so many irons in the fire he was always hoping one would get hot, but it never did. Meanwhile his favorite sister Catherine died, Anne and Hortense married failures, Aaron got greyer and stingier. Joe's bitterest pill was to watch his youngest brother David, a hypocritical prig, become...
President Roosevelt did not want the country to get the idea that this new Federal unemployment fund relieved communities and citizens from doing their loyal duty toward their local jobless. Said he: "The bill, in effect, is a challenge to governors, legislatures and local officials to stimulate their own efforts. . . . The first obligation is on the localities . . . then the State must do its utmost. . . . Only then can the Federal Government add its contribution...
...much impressed by the mechanics of the Gatun locks. "The silence is positively religious, giving an impression of safety, strength, and calm. It does honor to the Americans, and classes them with the Romans among the great builders of history." In Lima he found the people as climate-loyal as Californians; though in winter there is usually a misty drizzle, no one carries an umbrella. "You will even be treated as a Chilean-supreme insult! -if you carry one." In Peru "there is no public opinion, no consideration whatever of the general good." Siegfried did not care much for Buenos...