Word: stanchly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When ex-Corporal Mussolini marched on Rome in 1922, Marshal Badoglio, stanch monarchist, begged for a battalion of Royal Carabinieri to "sweep away these Black Shirt upstarts." He openly opposed the Ethiopian adventure until it became his duty to finish it. Although his heart may not be in this war, he is too good a soldier not to put his best brains and best effort into...
...Traveler, founded in 1825, is Bos ton's biggest afternoon paper (circulation 210,000), but it is not renowned for its editorial vigor. In the normal course of events, a few stanch followers of the Traveler's, editorial page would have nod ded their heads over Joe Toye's diatribe, and that would have been that. But City Editor Horton Edmands, one day last week, found in his mail a letter of protest from the German Consulate in Boston...
...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...
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...