Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Society stated, inter alia, "Oh well, let the applicant have its way. We have no desire to engage in acrimonious debate. . . . We laugh in scorn at the suggestion that we do not even exist. Twenty-thousand strong we laugh-Ha Ha! (ironic laughter). We have our traditions to uphold. A George never engages in acrimonious debate-well, hardly ever...
Duquesne, celebrated for its victory over Pitt, picked to uphold the North against Mississippi State, did so in Miami's Orange Bowl by the margin of Boyd Brumbaugh's place kick after his own touchdown in the second period...
...John Graham of Claverhouse, but the muttering Scottish Covenanters pronounced it "Bluidy Clavers." A gentleman, a hard-bitten soldier, Clavers had come back to Scotland from the Low Countries to see his dying mother, and at her behest stayed on to serve Charles II. His inglorious job was to uphold the unpopular Established Church, put down the dissenting Covenanters with a heavy hand. A misogynist, Clavers was faithful only to his duty. Nearly everyone hated...
...having been what first put the clergy onto Edward VIII, long before they heard of Mrs. Simpson. On Monday there were cheers for His Majesty among brokers on the Stock Exchange. The King sent to have read for him in Parliament an address in which he specifically promised "to uphold the honor of the realm." Her Majesty could not go to church and has been staying indoors with "influenza" for some time. Happy rumors rippled in London that Queen Elizabeth may have something better than influenza. His Majesty was always officially Albert (familiarly "Bertie") up to last week but Baldwin...
Prince Edward was scrupulous not to betray his class, and to do and say all he could to uphold the Kingdom and the Empire, giving no opportunity to irresponsible groups of the masses to harm Britain. Long after His Majesty's instrument of abdication was signed, sealed, published and in course of certain enactment by Parliament (see p. 17) one of the greatest mass gatherings in British history was still roaring outside of Buckingham Palace, "WE WANT EDWARD!" He was not there...