Word: toryism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempts at ethical or social seduction," he told a meeting of Laborites at Manchester, "can eradicate from my heart a deep, burning hatred for the Tory party that inflicted those bitter experiences on me. So far as I am concerned, they are lower than vermin . . ." "What is Toryism," he asked later, "but organized spivery...
...TIME, Sept. 30, 1940). The Beaver pretended not to notice. But when Foot gave the Tories the other barrel in The Trial of Mussolini, Beaverbrook dropped him as editor. Since mid-1944, Foot has done his sharpshooting from his column in the Laborite Daily Herald. ("The central problem of Toryism remains the same: how to get the poor to vote for the rich man's cause...
Peter W. Fay '45, this year's Ivy Orator, won the Philip Washburn prize for his thesis on "Toryism and Social Discontent in Pre-Victorian England," while Sumner and Toppan prizes went respectively to Thomas E. Baker and Herman M. Somers, both of whom are Ph.D. candidates...
...Each English Public (i.e., private) School has a special tie which "old boys" may proudly wear. Its colors (e.g., Eton's light blue line on black, Harrow's dark blue with white bands) are often based on the heraldic shield of the founder. As ,a symbol of Toryism, the Old School Tie fell into disrepute a decade ago, was later made a scapegoat for Britain's failure to prepare for war. It has also figured in many a feeble Britticism. Sample: a young Etonian, meeting a shabby fellow wearing a very frayed Old Etonian tie, asks...
...administrator and a conservative. There is so little about him that is reminiscent of his predecessor's eloquent and influential liberalism that many wondered last week if the appointment meant that the Church of England was swinging back from the brief near-socialism of William Temple to the Toryism of Cosmo Gordon Lang...