Word: steadfastness
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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...
...sufferings of Washington's army have made this place famous. ... It is a shrine to the things of the spirit and the soul. . . . Here men endured that a nation might live. . . . They met the crisis with steadfast fortitude. . . . We pay tribute to those in all wars who have stood steadfast. . . . The American people are going through another Valley Forge at this time. It is an hour of unusual stress and trial. You have each your special cause of anxiety. So, too, have I. The whole nation is beset with the difficulties incident to a world-wide depression. . . . Many have...
...claim that the source of all wisdom is in the Government. Such battles as we are in the midst of today cannot be won by any single stroke, by any one strategy sprung from the mind of any single genius. . . . Valley Forge met such a challenge to steadfastness in times and terms of war. Our test is to meet this challenge in times and terms of peace. . . . We are enduring sufferings and we are assailed by temptations. If we weaken, as Washington did not, we shall be writing the introduction to the fall of American institutions. . . . If, by the grace...
...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...