Word: fervid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Roosevelt, ever vigorous and logical, threw the whole-weight of his passionate personality and far-reaching fame into the scale for righteousness. From the first, his fervid and uncompromising loyalty to Allied principles, finding expression in lucid eloquence, has been like a furnace keeping the nation in an heroic glow of patriotic exaltation...
...somehow lacks the verve and passion of most of his verse. "The Wound," a little further on, by Mr. Wright, is without a doubt the most striking thing in the number. Reminiscent as it is of the work of a contemporary Irish writer, it still has an original and fervid vividness of expression, which combined with the writer's uncanny power of calling up long overtones of thought, makes reading "The Wound's rather memorable experience...
...professors. Mr. Sheahan writes warmly against the doctrine that men are born equal or may be rendered equal by legislation, and maintains that despite "The Menace of Socialism," the government of the future "will be founded upon profound inequality." Mr. Lippmann follows with a defence of Socialism, scarcely less fervid. "That Socialism," says Mr. Sheahan, "should gain enthusiastic recruits from the field of literature and from the colleges is disgraceful." "Until we drop the scholastic method in politics," says Mr. Lippmann, "and substitute the method of induction, we shall continue to wallow in misunderstanding and futility." Both papers...