Word: toryism
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...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...
...before he discredits us further, for his own sake as well as ours. . . . The matter is urgent. . . . There can be no doubt of the feelings of the common people of England . . . about this ugly business in Greece and other countries under the heel of slapdash British Toryism. ... If we do not end Winston, Winston will...
...week's end Hepburn held out a somewhat sere olive branch to his old enemy Prime Minister King: "My argument is not with Mr. King. . . . The time has come to oppose a new and dangerous form of Toryism in Ontario." Whether or not Mr. King accepted this peace offering, he undoubtedly would welcome any ally against enemy Drew. No one doubted that Hepburn was ready to step back as provincial Liberal leader-if he were asked. But some wondered whether he might not also be daydreaming. Mitch knows that Prime Minister King is 70 and that someone, some...
...differences in the Republican party were minor. Said he: "There has been some misconception of what is Republican opinion. All day, beginning at breakfast, I have talked with Republicans. I have not talked with any Republican who has any notion that the party should represent narrow nationalism, economic toryism, or abandonment of any social advances...