Word: pillar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tempered - had thrown a knife at a man, severed his jugular vein, been sentenced to 20 years in prison.) Oleander ordered Lily around, kept house for her, encouraged her love affairs, helped her marry, scandalized the neighbors, dwarfed her surroundings with her tawdry queenliness -in brief, a "burning pillar of a woman." Grant Sweetland, the ne'er-do-well son of a rich St. Louis family, a drunkard who in his childhood had tortured small ani mals, was "loosely groomed, indifferently tailored," with "a soft, rather overheated look ... a cowlick which dipped damp-looking across his brow," soft, womanish...
Democracy. Rights gained by toil and time permit the House of Commons, irrespective of the King's wishes, to do what it pleases. The Outlawries Bill symbolizes this pillar of freedom. A measure "for the more effectual preventing Clandestine Outlawries in personal actions," the Outlawries Bill was offered first in 1743. Never enacted, it was never forgotten. The members of the House never hear the King's address without reviving and reading it to show their independence...
...virulent hatred of what she termed the "communistic" fantasies of "desperate radicals"-by which she meant Home Rule for Ireland, Reform of the House of Lords and her Liberal arch-antagonist and recurrent Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone. Gladstone was at once a passionate monarchist, reformer, and pillar of brazen endurance. Monarch and monarchist battled for 20 years. Much of the time the widowed Queen was unpopular with her subjects because she insisted on secluding herself in her country palaces...
Lord Wavell's bluntness in putting Indian independence last on the list showed no desire to placate anyone. It did show a realistic approach to the fact that India is an important Allied military base as well as a shaky pillar of Empire. But the same bluntness was bound to alienate many Indians before he had mounted the throne. Indians could-and did-point out that a starving India could be neither an efficient base nor a willing ally. With no real evidence as yet, they were already branding him as another imperialist whipping master. And many Britons...
...took command of the First Army District, became a pillar of conservatism in the East Prussian Junker milieu, a loyal follower of archconservative General Werner von Fritsch. General von Brauchitsch did not oppose the Nazis; he snubbed them as upstarts. But to appease the old-line Army caste, Hitler made him Commander in Chief with Cabinet Minister rank...