Word: stalwart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That TIME should murder sleep of ignorance, yes - we might even say, Bellerophon like, it has been the stalwart steed of many a noble young thought - but - to base its attack on the one real thought that came out of the depression, upon a lack of credentials!!! How unfortunate, those seeking refuge in the Ark could not prove they had come over on the Mayflower...
...hard to find much more that the Conference did accomplish. In the name of His Majesty's Government, Sir Samuel, a stalwart Tory, refused to fix a date for the establishment of an Indian Federation (first step toward "dominion status") in 1935 or any other definite year. He rejected even the concept of an Indian-born Minister of Defense for India. He refused to pledge that Indian troops shall never be sent beyond India's frontier except with the special consent of the Indian Legislature. He stuck firmly by all the British "safeguards" that have stranded previous round...
...cousin met Pavel in the village street. They left him beaten, severely discolored. The village policeman refused to act until Pavel brought documentary proof of the assault and the nature of his injuries. Sticks & stones might break the bones of Pavel but they could not change the stalwart Communist principles of Pavel and little Fedor. They went on with the good work of peaching on Kulaks...
Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847), called "the Liberator" of Catholic Ireland, was a stalwart debater in the British House of Commons, a fine upstanding leader of the poor and oppressed Irish. After his death the name O'Connell was one for any Roman Catholic to revere. Would not an investment banking house named Daniel O'Connell & Co. sound safe? It did until this year...
...orchestra season opens in three heats: Eastern orchestras first, Midwestern next, far Western last. Boston, Manhattan and Philadelphia were well embarked on their seasons last week when simultaneously in Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Detroit four batons began cutting the air. Elderly, thickset Frederick Stock held the stick for Chicago, stalwart, British Eugene Goossens for Cincinnati, brisk Nikolai Sokoloff for Cleveland, quiet, slow-moving Ossip Gabrilowitsch for Detroit. The Midwestern conductors chose safe & sane courses last week, free from hazardous, modernistic hurdles...