Word: toryism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grandson of Painter Ford Madox Brown, "Fordie" was raised "to be a genius" by his philosopherfather, Dr. Franz Hueffer (long music critic of the London Times), by his grandfather and Aunt Lucy (sister-in-law of Poet Rosetti). Exposed from childhood to Fabianism, anarchism, aestheticism, etc., etc., he affects Toryism to annoy his relatives but looks "red" to the bourgeoisie. A Catholic, he sustains his family's reputation for heterodoxy by believing the Pope fallible, divorce moral. His friend, Edward Garnett, once came where Ford, in William Morris garb, drank country mead from a bullock's horn. Garnett...
Aside from some criticism based on suspicion of academic institutions, the Government's move is approved by the Oxford-Tory tradition. The foundation of Toryism was "the land." When "trade" relegated "land" to an inferior position, Toryism lost hold. If Oxford can help to bring back the relative value of land, it will be a boon to Toryism as well as to individual farmers...
...beyond the shadow of a doubt to an intellectual world no longer as narrow-minded and provincial as it used to be, that every word uttered against you was true, that you are indeed (if your statements reflect the sentiment of your college) a hot-bed of despicably British Toryism. When the so-called "loyal coalition" can quote you, you have indeed reached heights of ignorant bigotry and falsehood...
...best principles to the fore. There are few permanent differences between the two. New issues are adopted almost year by year, and the qualities of a party's services to the nation changes as regularly. Once, the Democratic party supported slavery; now the Republican leaders seem to favor Toryism. The only way on choosing between the two is to sit "on the fence" until the issues are clearly defined, the candidates chosen and the platforms framed. Then vote for the best...