standpat
Example Sentences
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By the time she has finished turning over her unsavory material its odor is strong enough to make even a standpat Congressman hold his nose.
From Time Magazine Archive
Backed by labor and Oklahoma's Democratic tradition, he denounced Rizley's standpat record in Congress, shouted out his own down-the-line support of Franklin Roosevelt's poli cies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Along with its legislative record, each Congress writes its own short hand label: innovative or standpat, Micawberish or Scroogian, spineless or rebellious.
From Time Magazine Archive
Zacharias' M.I.T.-sponsored Physical Science Study Committee used a simple principle: it got top university scholars to reinterest themselves in high schools, after decades of leaving such tasks as textbook writing to standpat educationists.
From Time Magazine Archive
Henry, you may remember, delivered the Roosevelt valedictory at the Chicago Republican convention in 1912, when he kidded the standpat crowd out of every Republican state in the union but two at the election.
From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White
