Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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- So famed did the poem become that any ballplayer who takes a lusty swing at the ball is known as " Casey." In the recent World's Series, some attention was drawn to " Casey" Stengel of the New York Giants, who hit home-runs on two critical occasions. But not...
Yet even in defeat de Valera intends to conduct a dignified retreat. He will have no "unconditional surrender." From the midst of the wreckage of his party, he proclaims once again the same principles which the Free State has rejected and which have embroiled the torn island for so long...
Snowden is a labor member of Parliament, and author of several books on socialism. He is a determined and intelligent man, and can in no sense be termed a fanatic.
The visual images of the men under discussion is clarity itself, Bishop Gore, for instance, carries about with him "a permanently troubled conscience." The phrase lives in his face. It is not the face of a man at peace with himself. If he has peace of mind it is a...