Word: stalwartness
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...Republicans. He is already scheduled to campaign in California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Connecticut, New York and Ohio. But wherever he goes, and whatever he says about medicare, John Kennedy will be hard-pressed to explain why the voters should punish his Republican opponents and continue to support the 21 stalwart Democrats of the Senate who ganged up on him last week...
Lost Lust. In the Orwellian world of ANC there will be no telephone exchanges to take pride of comfort in. Philadelphia's old-guard PEnnypacker and stalwart FIdelity will be gone; San Francisco will lose its lusty KLondike and sunny VAlencia; Mobile's TUlip will wither alongside Cincinnati's BRamble and Santa Fe's YUcca. Fenton, MO., will be torn from it's cozy FIreside, while Chester, Pa., and its saucy GYpsy will be parted. NIghtingale and HYacinth will nevermore breathe their poetry over Brooklyn's wires. The sands are running out fpr such...
Died. General Count Jacques Aldebert de Chambrun, 89, stalwart servant of two nations, an honorary U.S. citizen by virtue of his direct descent from the Marquis de Lafayette, a Sahara-seasoned French soldier who aided the A.E.F. by serving on General Pershing's staff, in World War II kept open both the American Hospital and American Library in Paris; after a short illness; in Paris...
...remained a stalwart figure of a man. Had he still been in uniform, he could have worn upon his breast several rows of ribbons earned in distinguished service in the U.S. Army. As he testified last week before a U.S. Senate subcommittee, he sought desperately to bring home to Americans his notion of the meaning and menace of international Communism. Yet despite all this-his physical appearance, his record and the sincerity of his intentions-resigned Major General Edwin Anderson Walker cut a pathetic figure...
...same was true of another cultural stalwart of the Party, John Dos Passos. For all his proletarian sympathies, Dos Passos never found any form of collectivism congenial. He was never able to shake off the feeling that the Party was using him, never able to swallow the Party's slogans and the doctrine of two truths (one for the elite, one for the masses), and found it especially hard to stomach the Party's leadership. Like so many other writers, Dos Passos wavered a long time before he finally broke with the Party; but his break could have been predicted...