Word: fanaticize
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A nun named after the Most Blessed Conception of the Virgin Mary continued the focus of Mexican news last week. She had been besmirched (TIME, Sept. 3). A youth and a girl had confessed that she was the "master mind" of a group of Roman Catholics who finally persuaded a...
Though these developments convinced many persons of the immaculate innocence of Mother Concepcion, they comprised a mere incident in the broad and sweeping criminal investigation now being conducted by Mexico City's new Chief of Police, General Antonio Rios Zertuche. The General, an intimate and brother-in-arms of...
Atheists are hampered in their activities by the fact that few public personages dare testify to disbelief in God. Sensation seekers crowd their ranks and an atheist fanatic is equalled in insane ferocity only by an inflamed revivalist. Yet leading atheists claim many famous figures as their allies. Such figures...
The Man. "A cross between St. George and Don Quixote"-one might add P. Y. Barnum to Author Long's analysis, and so justify Asquith in diagnosing Bryan as "a peculiar product of your country." If by peculiar he meant curious, there are those in this country who would...
Dominating group, divided against itself, is the Laurentano family, old and young: Don Cosmo, madman or philosopher, is a kindly recluse on the family estate and with him lives Mauro Mortora, an old fanatic Garibaldino. Disgusted with these revolutionists of 1860 another Laurentano, Prince Ippolito, had banished himself for life...