Word: steadfast
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...Gruff soldier with heart of gold and will of iron, brilliant in strategy, steadfast in courage-nothing dandified in his uniform, nothing lily-livered in his perpetual cigar, nothing watered about his liquor-such is, and will be, the popular impression of victorious U. S. Grant, modern biographers to the contrary...
...Kentucky Mountain Fantasies the noisy "Funeralizing of Crickneck" is broad comedy which might have any superstitious community for setting, but "Napoleon Crossing the Rockies" is unique. A railroad representative tries to bully two old folks to sell their property. Steadfast as the Napoleon of their ditty they refuse this stranger's heap of gold, but sell to a suave acquaintance who gives the old woman a chain of gaudy beads, and the old man new strings for his fiddle...
...Charles Madden, Lt. Col. Sir Maurice Hankey, Sir Eric Geddes,* Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith and Baron Brad bury of Winsford. As a stirring climax to the induction of the Twelve, there was administered to them this Knightly Oath: "You shall honor God above all things ; you shall be steadfast in the faith of Christ. You shall love the King your Sovereign Lord, and him and his right defend to your power. You shall defend maidens, widows and orphans in their rights and shall suffer no extortion as far as you may prevent it, and of as great honor be this...
...hack-writers who produce "true stories" and "confessions" were told by their employers to "lay off the sex stuff." This applied chiefly to seductions and attempted seductions. A cleaner substitute was wanted, partly because of fear of censorship, but essentially because public taste was changing. Heart throbs, steadfast virtue, outdoor heroes, wholesome homes, human interest stories were selling like hotdogs at a horse race. They became the order...
...conviction that I should not strive for the nomination, and my obligations as Secretary of Commerce preclude me from making any personal campaign. I must rely wholly upon my friends in Ohio to conduct it, and to conduct it in a fair manner and with steadfast regard for Republican success in the state and the nation. It is my special desire that expenditure of money shall be strictly limited and rigidly accounted...