Word: staunchest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swarthy, hawklike, with beady eyes . . . thin elongated nose." A charlatan, cardsharp, liar, forger, adulterer, seducer, jailbird, he was still a "student of humanities . . . connoisseur of the arts and sciences, philosopher, dramatist and poet." A worldly man, with few illusions, Casanova had some profound convictions. "It was one of his staunchest beliefs, one that he retained to his dying day, that lack of sexual expression is followed by a mortal illness." Though his memoirs are never wholly to be believed, the two adventures of which he was proudest (the escape from the Leads and the duel with Branicki) seem to have...
Startling are some of the many statements quoted from potent Britons, past and present, to show that in unguarded moments even staunchest Imperialists share a measure of Dr. Sunderland's views. For example, as long ago as 1911, Lord Morley, then Secretary of State for India, described the native officials in the Indian Civil Service as men "as good in every way as the best of the men in Whitehall" (i.e. equals of the officials in Britain's own Civil Service...
...least a twelvemonth enemies of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré have confidently prophesied that his Cabinet would fall soon after he should have put the franc back on a gold basis-a deed done last fortnight (TIME, July 2). Even staunchest friends feared, last week, for the grizzled statesman's grip on Power. His famed Cabinet of Sacred Union comprises representatives of parties bitterly opposed, who laid down their political tomahawks solely because of the desperate emergency created by the slithering fall of the franc (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926). Today the paper franc is good as gold; and French...
...sooner did Lady Mary hear that Lady Sophie had recovered from the fever, and was really about to resume the Cape Town-London flight, than she called for her latest and staunchest Moth, and hopped over the British channel. But she had no wish to flaunt a rivalry. Therefore, since her diamond-mining husband, Sir Abe, happened to be in South Africa, she announced that she was taking the most leisurely trip to visit him and that quite incidentally she would be the first woman to fly the London-Cape Town wastes...
...ashes for President Pease when he heard no authoritative Amherst voice sound forth to deny that, a "good" man having just been found, a "great" man might almost immediately displant him. But solace for President Pease, if he needed any, lay in the fact that one of his staunchest friends and promoters was Amherst Trustee Dwight W. Morrow, staunch friend and promoter, politically, and also classmate, of President Coolidge...