Word: toryism
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...Your Hands!" Plump and harmless as a tabby. Labor Leader "Uncle" Arthur Henderson tried to keep the Party on its well-worn track of merely Talking Socialism. "Labor must be definitely international in its outlook," he orated vaguely. "The National Government is Toryism without disguise. . . . There is need for an advance toward Socialism. . . ." Taking this bit in their teeth, the delegates galloped, bolted. While Leader Henderson begged and pleaded for "caution" the Congress ignored him, cheered to the echo a "labor intellectual," Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (onetime President of the Board of Education) who proposed to block the possibility that...
...staff with him and founded The Week End Review. The Saturday Review never recovered. Last week it announced its acquisition by the virile Conservative Spectator. Founded 76 years ago by A. J. B. Beresford Hope, brother-in-law of Lord Salisbury, the Saturday Review achieved early fame for savage Toryism, shrieking the "menace" of Russia and Germany. But its true consequence was literary rather than political, particularly at the turn of the century when Frank Harris was editor and George Bernard Shaw music critic...
...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...