Word: steadfast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compromising connection with the rebels. The result was that Connecticut and Rhode Island received liberal charters guaranteeing them freedom of worship, democratic rights, while England itself remained in the grip of repression for another quarter-century. Pious Rhode Islanders believed it divine mercy resulting from their steadfast adherence to God's laws. But shrewd Professor Andrews thinks that Englishmen were already secretly opposed to religious repression, willing to experiment abroad in granting rights they would not concede at home...
...incidents of this kind only occurred when she was away in Maine having a good time "before she was ninety" and he in New York working over a drafting table from one year's end to the other. Myrna Loy gradually assumed a dual personality; that of the understanding, steadfast wife, and that of the quasi-loyal wife who lays bare all her domestic troubles to a male friend when she should have kept them religiously to herself. The stock market crash in 1929 wiped out all his money, and the depression left him without a job. Through...
Calmest 'reaction to the hullabaloo was that of New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock. Wrote he: "The most steadfast vigilance on the part of administrators has been unable to prevent successful cases of malingering, double-timing and false pretenses of need. . . . How can they be eliminated entirely? Do the Republicans know the answer? If so, they have not yet imparted...
...past seven years Conductor Arturo Toscanini, who dislikes mechanical music, has been steadfast in his refusal to make phonograph records. To him, his own performances always seemed short of perfection, hence unworthy of being perpetuated. During his last few months with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony (TIME, May 11 et ante), RCA Victor doubled its efforts to persuade him to change his mind, pleaded that he owed it to the public and posterity. The Maestro's "no" was unyielding until a friend suggested that he would be doing a real service to the composer he might interpret, that...
...sonnet: This man was King in England's direst need; In the black-battled years when hope was gone, His courage was a flag men rallied on; His steadfast spirit shewed him King indeed. And when the war was ended, when the thought Of revolution took its hideous place, His courage and his kindness and his grace Scattered {or charmed) its ministers to naught. No King, of all our many, has been proved By time so savage to the thrones of kings Nor won more simple triumph over fate. He was most royal among royal things, Most thoughtful...