Word: steadfast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Memorial Day address in which he drew a parallel between his own troubles and General Washington's. President Hoover has never been called a Republican stand-patter. But his advice to the country, to emulate Washington at Valley Forge, may supply a slogan for the 1932 campaign: "Stand Steadfast!" In the 17-minute Valley Forge speech the word "steadfast" recurred seven emphatic times...
...interesting phenomena will be those who honestly disbelieve in the display for any one of many valid reasons. If they do not experience the cool tickle down their spines, it is because they have missed the sight. And one may readily sympathize with their hasty and shamefaced return to steadfast convictions once the last roar has vanished. Even a reformer is sometimes human...
...darkly, rebellious but ineffective. For a time he finds a pretty young middle-class doctor's wife refreshing, until her bourgeois virtue thwarts him. Later he loves a hard-headed little model for her honest kindness, and there is mention of a game-keeper's daughter. His only steadfast affection is for Chevron, its venerable house, its loyal tenantry, even its exhausting duties. Increasingly the proprieties grow upon him, and at last he languidly courts a proper match. Against his will he takes part in the coronation of George V. and Queen Mary, and during its wearisome ceremonies feels that...
Winfield Sheehan. Mr. Sheehan emerged as biggest winner. It was reported that he would have been made Fox president except for his steadfast refusal to accept the honor. Said Variety, well-informed theatrical weekly: "Winnie Sheehan . . . has been the backbone of Fox ever since he joined it nearly 20 years ago." Last week Backbone Sheehan emerged as active and unquestioned operating head, was engaged in winding up his eastern affairs preparatory to returning to Hollywood...