Word: toryism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Toryism of the Lake Poets", Professor Brinton, Harvard...
...great was the commotion in the stock exchanges that few heard Tycoon Melchett's pronouncements on world affairs. As a Tory, he will support Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's government in the coming British elections. Students of English politics recalled, however, that his Toryism is of curiously recent vintage. His was the influence and his the bank account which helped the Liberal Lloyd George to power and kept him there. As Sir Alfred Mond, he took the Ministry of Public Works in the first Lloyd George cabinet...
...founded in Revolutionary times by a New York upholsterer named William Mooney to give the bourgeoisie a club comparable to the aristocratic Society of the Cincinnati, to which only New York's fine families belonged. An Indian patron-saint and Indian rigmarole were adopted as a protest against Toryism. The objects of the Society were and have been benevolent-making immigrants comfortable, for example. The activities of the members were and have been political. After comforting immigrants, one can enfranchise them and show them how to vote...
...speak disrespectfully of these loyalties; but they make Sir William's Toryism equivocal and they perhaps explain the shrillness of his note. . . . When he went to the Home Office he went with soul aflame to cleanse the social sewers. Drink, gambling, night clubs, all the brood of darkness should know that at last a real St. George was abroad in Merry England. But no blow fell. On each adventure he was quietly and painlessly disarmed, and he learned, what some of us had suspected, that Puritanism is not a strongly marked characteristic of Toryism and that it does...
...pleasant to be beaten continuously but it is a good thing for Harvard if it will awaken the undergraduate body to a realization of what is wrong there. Graduates who know the West realize that the stupid toryism which is putting New England on the toboggan industrially, for years with few and short intervals has had its dead hand on Harvard athletics. If intercollegiate sports are a good thing get the men who can teach you to win your share of contests. There is no virtue in any qualification other than the ability to win in a sportsmanlike manner...