Word: royalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louisiana oil. Helis was the biggest money backer of Earl Long. In 1939 he was involved in the "hot-oil" scandals with New Orleans' former mayor and Huey Long henchman, Robert Sidney Maestri. Helis is a one-man lobby for Greece (he is a supporter of the royalist faction), once owned drilling concessions for the entire nation. He keeps a racing stable in New Jersey. During the war, he turned his yacht over to the Government. General MacArthur's command used it all during the Pacific campaign...
...true faith of an Armorer [is] to give arms to all men who offer an honest price for them . . . to Royalist and Republican, to Communist and Capitalist . . . to burglar and policeman, to black man, white man and yellow man, to all nationalities, all faiths, all follies...
George Polk, Middle East correspondent for the Columbia Broadcasting System, had established a reputation as a fearless and honest reporter and as an opponent of the Greek Royalist Government. His death occurred during the very week he was to have returned to the United States to accept one of Harvard's coveted Nieman Fellowships...
That was how Eliot, a "revolutionary" poet, became without inconsistency the foremost literary champion of tradition. Everybody quoted him as saying that he was "classicist in literature, royalist in politics and Anglo-Catholic in religion." That would have sounded less smug if they had added, as Eliot did: "I am quite aware that the first term is completely vague, and easily lends itself to claptrap; I am aware that the second term is at present without definition, and easily lends itself to what is almost worse than claptrap, I mean temperate conservatism; the third term does not rest with...
...uses her eyes, mouth and bosom so effectively that it soon becomes clear that she was born too late. Back in the disreputable old days of silent movies, when sex was sex, she would have become a major star very fast. Today, she seems as anachronistic as a Virginia royalist. But it is a pleasure to watch her work...