Word: loyall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thesis will annoy not only loyal subjects of His Majesty but U. S. Anglophiles: that the American language, once a dialect of English, is now stronger than its mother tongue, so that English " promises to become, on some not too remote tomorrow, a kind of dialect of American...
...Bontemps can sketch convincing characters, to use an overworked expression. His negroes are authentic, and so are his "planter" aristocrats. Ben, the loyal old slave, who betrays the insurgents; Melody, the mulatto mistress of the white rascals; Juba, the slave girl who is in love with the hero; Mr. Moseley Sheppard, Ben's master; Pharaoh, the other traitor--all these characters remain fixed in the memory some time after one has finished reading the book. Gabriel, the hero, who had pondered on the exploits of Toussainat L'Ouverture, the Haitian patriot, is not so forceful as a better novelist would...
...longtime admirer of Mayor Daniel Webster Hoan of Milwaukee, I wish to congratulate TIME on the fine story "Marxist Mayor": but, as a loyal alumnus of the University, of Wisconsin, I protest against the statement that the professors at that institution had 'seemed never to have heard" of Socialism. Neither do I believe that it has been necessary for any Wisconsin student of the past 40 years to "stumble on the teachings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...
Last Sunday morning a Crimson editor, loyal as ever to the cradle in which he was reared, drove out to Groton to attend Easter services. The scene was Easter to the last degree, with the stained-glass windows, the brightly-scrubbed Gothic pillars, the staunch lilies, and the choir boys resplendent in what F. P. A. once called "red surpluses". When the collection plate came round, even that had a hallowed tone in keeping with the sacred morning. As it passed the Crimson editor, piled high with bounty, a white slip of paper detached itself from the pile of money...
...things to all men", which the Editor observed in the national program, indicates a democratic tolerance of the convictions of other members and member organizations in the loose intercollegiate federation rather than an acceptance of those convictions on the part of every individual member. To be a loyal citizen, one need not approve of every policy of the United States Government...