Word: fervent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poiret gowns. Meantime she was becoming famed for large, jolly parties to which socialites and celebrities went dressed as circus performers, animals, ballet dancers, Spaniards, infants. When Depression smashed her husband's brokerage firm, Mrs. Wright turned her talents and reputation to moneymaking. Now fortyish and fervent, she directs a Monday afternoon radio variety hour, smokes large cigars, boasts of her collection of autographs ranging from that of "Johnnie" Pershing ("the General, you know") to those of "Cantor and the Divine Sarah...
When the epidemic was over, grateful survivors addressed to President Andrew Johnson a fervent petition for Dr. Mudd's release. It never reached the White House. A new commanding officer sent the physician back to his dungeon, chains and labor. There he stayed until the spring of 1869 when President Johnson finally released him. Health broken and still suspect among his neighbors, Dr. Mudd tried for 14 years without success to win back his old life. In 1883, aged 50, he went out on a stormy night to attend a patient, caught pneumonia, quickly died...
...last week, Mrs. Henry Bennett found an egg imprinted with the phrase: "Here my word 35." Viewing this as a religious portent, Mrs. Bennett told her neighbors about it. A wave of excited piety overtook Couch. To Mrs. Bennett's home went visitor after visitor, to emit fervent prayers. When, in a fit of devout jitters, a female preacher dropped the egg and broke it, Mrs. Bennett succeeded in gluing enough pieces on another egg so that the words were still visible. Said Mrs. Bennett: "The egg was put here for some good reason. Why it was sent...
...account for the paucity of certain volumes, but even so, such a plan would defeat its purpose, for reasons which, it is to be hoped, are all too obvious. At any rate, rather than elaborate upon the point at hand, these columns can do no more than offer a fervent prayer that Librarians will make sure there are sufficient copies of books in constant demand before precious money is spent on such relatively unimportant material as fills the shelves in the room containing the Delivery Desk. Wherever may lie the blame for the discrepancy in available volumes, the situation...
...Murder Farm." In Geneva a session of the Assembly of the League of Nations especially convened to end the everlasting war between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Gran Chaco achieved nothing more last week than an international radio hookup over which League statesmen mouthed fervent peace appeals...