Word: stanching
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...York City, educated at swank St. Paul's and Princeton. But he looked like a young Abraham Lincoln - gaunt, awkward frame, unruly hair, deep-set eyes - and like Lincoln he loved the common people. He was a liberal, an idealist, a student of government and sociology, a stanch friend of Labor. On the platform, however, the only man in 100 years to be elected Governor of New Hampshire three times proved to be a halting, colorless speaker who, unlike Lincoln, failed notably to kindle public enthusiasm...
...been roundly approved by Manhattan's Macy's. Sitting at his desk in shirtsleeves, President Tily confided to a newshawk that the scheme pleased him because it was "ethically and morally right." Pious and high-minded son of a poverty-stricken English gentleman, he is a stanch believer in the ethics of NRA, once advocated a 3-hour working day. Doubtless he had in mind his early years at Strawbridge & Clothier where, at 14, he went to work as a messenger boy at $2 a week. After hours he stayed awake only long enough to study his music...
...watching the races at Ascot. Enough pomp and circumstance still attends public occasions in England for Mr. Max Beerbohm's admiration for royalty, when he contemplates the "cheap and tawdry inmates of the White House and the Champs Elysees," to be somewhat justified, even in the eyes of stanch republicans. One doubts, nevertheless, whether certain of King George's predecessors--Queen Elizabeth or even James II--would have been content to be chiefly decorative, or to have their royal relatives go "Empire crusading," as Sir Auston nicely and naively calls it, speaking of the Duke of Gloucester...
Raised in Richmond, Va. where his father was a merchant, Partner Strauss was an aide-de-camp to Herbert Hoover in France and Belgium during the War. What is more he is still a stanch Hoover friend and admirer. The late Mortimer Schiff met Mr. Strauss in Paris, asked him to work for Kuhn, Loeb. He was made a partner in 1929 at the age of 33. Like many a past Kuhn, Loeb partner who was not the son of a partner, Partner Strauss married a partner's daughter-in this case Jerome Hanauer's Alice...
...living Sphinx of the Netherlands, crop-haired, eagle-beaked Premier Hendrik Colijn has brought Her Majesty's Government unscathed through Communist brickbat assaults and the worst of Depression only to face last week the "Dutch Nazis." For stanch old Dr. Colijn it was exquisitely embarrassing to have to explain to his strong-minded Queen, Nazi-contemptuous Wilhelmina, how it has come about that one of the Premier's own sons is a "Dutch Nazi...