Word: steadfastness
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...have been ever a valiant soldier of the truth; a "Happy Warrior", strong, serene and steadfast, in the full meaning of the poet's phrase--with, I imagine, something of the Puritan's delight in the joy of righteous conflict. We rejoice that you are still clad in your shining armor; that your soul is radiant with the spirit of youth...
...Steadfast Heart. Starting at the tender age of ten, our hero shoots the sheriff-in defense of his mother, of course. The rest of the picture he spends living down the murder. He goes away and becomes a newspaper reporter. As a reporter he looks rather like a second class collar advertisement. On his return to the home grounds he frustrates a man with oilless oil wells; the town and his childhood sweetheart collapse at his feet. Indifferent acting and direction shattered what started out to be a simple, sincere narrative of the type so seldom met with...
...Steadfast. A short life and an unhappy one was the portion of this curious discussion of Jewish religion. Though Frank McGlynn (Abraham Lincoln man) tried hard to make the central character convincing, the play took its leave after six days' discouraging display...
...steel and velvet" ? the growth, rampage and decline of the Borgian Bull? in the fields of Renaissance Italy? a biography that for color, excitement and human interest ranks with the best of Sabatini's adventurous novels, but a biography which displays throughout a steadfast adherence to historical fact. Sabatini does not attempt to whitewash the terrific Cesare, but he does explode a number of usual errors concerning and flimsy accusations against him. Life in the Borgia home was not, as is commonly supposed, just one cup of poison after another. But, nevertheless, as Sabatini describes it, it seems thrilling...
...Your order has ever shown its steadfast devotion to American principles and American ideals. You are Knights of Columbus, a name of great significance, representing not only a great discovery, but the eternal principle of all discovery and progress. When all the world doubted, when his own followers sought to turn back, he sailed on, daring to follow the truth...