Word: stanching
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...wave of socialist, reformist thinking that swept the western U.S. farm country and the Knights of Labor after the Civil War, two notable fantasies of the future were written. Caesar's Column, by that stanch Populist orator and Baconian, Ignatius Donnelly, depicted the late 20th Century as an extravaganza of what is now called Fascism, only in ancient stage Roman costume. Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy, gave readers in 1888 a more plausible picture of a future State Socialism which in technological details at least radio, television, movies was remarkably prophetic...
Anthony Eden's stanch friend Alfred Duff Cooper, M. P., who resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty in protest against appeasing Adolf Hitler at Munich, last week roused London with speeches and press interviews on a keynote long soft-pedaled by the Government. "It would be a good thing," said he, "to break Germany up into small States...
Williams' mythical Lear came just in time to steam London up for a real Lear. Fortnight ago John Gielgud-who played Hamlet on Broadway in 1936-opened in Lear at London's historic, wrong-side-of-the-Thames Old Vic. The stanch Old Vicars-highbrows, artists, workingmen, eccentrics-in tweeds and business suits, did not make for a glittering first night. But because Gielgud was fighting for art in wartime, and because he played the mad, storm-swept, kingly old man with understanding, London's critics voted Lear the most important theatrical event since the war began...
...Washington] monument is still there." Biographers Stephenson & Dunn will have no truck with the legend that Washington was in love with Sally Fairfax, wife of his close neighbor and friend; they discreetly evade speculation on whether his feelings for Martha were no more than dutiful. Stanch alibiers for his military blunders, they uncritically dislike Washington's critics Jefferson, Lee, Gates, Sam Adams, the Conway Cabal, et al. But their biography is the most compact and exact thus far (with 130 pages of notes which, as usual in scholarly biographies, are frequently more interesting than the text). And they display...
...only Britons who can give Egyptian Amr Bey a run for his money in squash racquets, can still give a tennis game to Helen Wills. He has spoken many times on that question so important to the U. S., the Jewish refugee problem, and last week, while stanch Government supporters cheered and cried, "Hear! Hear!" and the Opposition yelled, "Oh!" and "Shame!", Mr. Cazalet asked this pointed question about Palestine...