Word: staunched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history have struck a happier balance with their age or won richer rewards in return than Flemish Artist Peter Paul Rubens, master of Europe's baroque style at its 17th century peak. A staunch Roman Catholic, unquestioning Royalist, shrewd businessman, Rubens was both a spectacularly successful diplomat, the trusted adviser of kings, and the most sought-after painter of his day, whose masterpieces today are treasured by every major museum of Europe. In an exhibition of his oil sketches and drawings, collected by Harvard's Fogg Museum and Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library and on display...
...vote-catching political device. The Liberal government has lately been under heavy opposition attack for the freedom it has allowed U.S. investors in Canada. With a general election coming up next year. Liberal strategists figured that a loud public slap at U.S. magazines, putting themselves in the role of staunch defenders of Canadian culture against outside influences, would be an easy way to make the government look good without doing any heavy damage to Canada-U.S. trade. Not to be overlooked either was the good chance that the Canadian magazines benefiting from the restriction would tend to take...
Doctor's Opinion. During his busy three days in Washington, Kubitschek lost no opportunity to press his case. He packed in two state dinners (hosts: Vice President Richard Nixon, Secretary Dulles) and a frantic round of handshaking and speechmaking. Everywhere he stressed the point that Brazil remains a staunch friend of the U.S., with both feet firmly in the camp of democracy. The U.S.'s "stimulating atmosphere of freedom and progress," he said, "could but strengthen, were it necessary, my profound democratic convictions and my confidence in the fortunes of the free world to which our two nations...
Gauguin, selling his paintings to pay the passage, turned his proud-beaked head toward Tahiti and the unknown future. Toulouse-Lautrec, grown famous for his paintings peopled with characters from Parisian cafés and brothels, remained a staunch defender of Van Gogh until his own death eleven years later...
Another blow came from the Michigan Supreme Court. It reaffirmed an earlier ruling that a state fair-trade law could be enforced only against those retailers who had signed fair-trade agreements,* thus touched off a wave of defections. Toastmaster division of McGraw Electric Co., a longtime staunch defender of price fixing, discontinued enforcement in Michigan, thus chose the course taken there by General Electric weeks earlier. By week's end Sunbeam Corp., which had never willingly permitted its products to be discounted, joined the surrender and canceled all its fair-trade contracts with Michigan retailers. The State Supreme...