Word: fanaticize
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Miss Bushnell alone seems to be fully aware of the dramatic possibilities of the play; as usual, her characterization is sincere and appealing. The rest of the players, except Mr. Darney have rather inconsequential parts, which they take well enough. Mr. Darney, of course, is the villain; supposedly he is...
1915]. On the one hand the placid, prudent, elderly English gentleman [Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stopford] with his 20,000 men spread around the beaches, the front lines sitting on the tops of shallow trenches, smoking and cooking, with here and there an occasional rifle shot, others bathing by hundreds...
Just why New Yorkers have failed to recognize this place of satire on fanatic reform as such is a mystery. With one exception they seem to have been taken in. The sole septic states with utmost gravity that he cannot and the address, of "Mr. Fillmore's" society in the...
- 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...