Word: toryism
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...Note: Mr. Mann, a noted New York Counselor at Law, makes a business of challenging political opponents to debate. His "Toryism" is summarized in his tract, "What the United States Constitution Means to You," which concludes: "Let us rejoice, we are privileged to drink the living waters of America. Not for us the dark and deadly potion of monarchy, of autocracy, or of socialism. Those Americans who have visited the beautiful city of Washington will remember the apt phrase graven over the doors of the great Union Station...
...foreign nations it is simply unfathomable. No matter how much it is cursed as an obstacle in the way of modern and efficient government, any movement to alter it is met with the hottest of resentment. When it comes to a definite showdown, Americans decide with their peculiar toryism that whatever is to be done must keep within the limits of the Constitution. If this is found to be impossible, the legislation is hurried out of sight around the corner while its advocate blushes at his political indiscretion...
...year here, Fesler was up against a new job, and a not-too-superb bunch of players; to boot, it was his first responsible coaching job. The year's record was unmistakably poor, but it is not easy to bring a new style of play into this stronghold of toryism and reaction, nor is it easy to inspire a team from which the spark has been extinguished by years of consecutive defeat. Then too, factional prejudice arose on the squad, and the role of peace-maker, arbiter, and policeman was added to Wes' many troubles...
Lady Astor continued to be comforted by the stolid Toryism of the House of Chamberlain, mere second-generation though it is. Sir Austen Chamberlain, he of the affrighting icy monocle, grows dim; but even without a monocle his brother Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, remains perhaps the world's most formidable Tory. Last week Mr. Chamberlain addressed the House of Commons, and Labor in particular, with such withering conservative rebuke that even when he referred to Britain's 2,000,000 unemployed," no M. P. ventured the impertinence of interrupting to observe that Government...
...been a Marxist of some shade or other before March 4, but that he is now caught almost against his will, in the spiritual upswing of Roosevelt's unfaltering "bourgeois" leadership. There is hope for a temporary middle-class ruling class, but whether this is to be enlightened capitalism, Toryism, liberalism, or socialism, the writer dose not make clear...