Word: staunching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ground that it was "dangerous to change parties in mid-Depression"); yet he is a devout Wilsonian ("Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom principles were the major philosophical stamp on my thought") and a registered Democrat in Fairfax County, Va., where he lives. He is a lifelong internationalist, a staunch supporter of the League of Nations and the U.N., has backed the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine; but he sometimes speaks with an accent that isolationists applaud. He also strongly backs Senator McCarthy, but has condemned McCarthy's "indefensible" slander of General Marshall...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Paul Clement Matthews, 87, longtime (1915-37) Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey; in Winter Park, Fla. Always a staunch foe of birth control, Bishop Matthews also denounced Prohibition, once declared: "Life is not the product of law ... If the people are not temperate, no law will make them...
Actually, Evelyn Peyton Gordon can go through most Washington receiving lines on the basis of background alone. A fifth-generation Washingtonian, chic, fiftyish Evie attended schools all over the world, graduated from Manhattanville College, made her debut in Washington 28 years ago and has been a staunch cave dweller ever since. Starting as a society reporter for the Washington Post in 1927, she later moved to the tabloid News, where she decided to stay because "it was a small paper; they didn't have nine managing editors and all that nonsense." Because she is so popular, News editors...
Consider the lamp-post, gentlemen. Is it the brave, fearless last representative of a style of architecture that once was, standing in front of that horrid edifice, beaming its disrespect at it like a staunch puppydog eyeing a newfangled fire-hydrant? No, it is not. It is a ruse, a front, a deception placed there by the administration to lead us away from the realization of the thunderous truth: that modern architecture, the creeping cancer of our industrial technology, has in fact captured a corner of the Harvard Yard, the nucleus of New World intellect, world shrine of ivied Victorian...
...years that followed, Teresa proved herself a staunch and loyal helpmate to both Luigi and the party, as he became the Communists' chief organizer and disciplinarian. She helped organize strikes. Whenever Luigi was carted off to a Mussolini jail, Teresa uncomplainingly took over his party chores. She fled with him to France and to Russia, fought by his side in the Spanish Civil War. In underground papers she edited, Teresa laid down the party line, and she also wrote three proletarian novels. No one ever questioned her ardor or orthodoxy. Presumably no more congenial pair existed...