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Word: fanaticism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Manhattan an anonymous fanatic painted in red letters on Grant's Tomb: The good but starve; the order of the day Is prey on others or become a prey.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Couplet | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

Such a trial as could revolve only around a fanatic vortexed in Paris last week around Dr. Paul Gorgulov who was caught red-handed assassinating the President of the Republic, Paul Doumer (TIME, May 16). The strange proceedings so fascinated a group of young French lawyers that they stealthily occupied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Glad Madman | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

A GLASTONBURY ROMANCE-John Cowper Powys-Simon & Schuster ($3.75). In spite of the considerable success of his two-volume novel Wolf Solent, in spite of Critic H. L. Mencken's dictum that no two-volume novel ever failed, Author Powys confines the 1,174 pages of his latest fanciful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Perversed English | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

A year ago the U. S. had four great and potent friends in Japan: Premier Hama-guchi, his successor Wakatsuki, able bow-&-arrow man, Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara, the "Roosevelt of Japan," Finance Minister Junnosuke Inouye. Premier Hamaguchi was shot by a fanatic, died a lingering death. Premier Wakat-suki...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Black Dragon | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

TIME is my intellectual staff of life. Without it I would be mentally dead in these days of confusion. While in camp in Colorado last summer, I actually walked two miles and back to Denver on three successive Saturdays to get a copy of TIME, and I am no longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 15, 1932 | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

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