Word: fervid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once Lacoste had perceived what was wanted of him the drama moved forward with a steadily sharpening curve of emotion. Lacoste took the first set 6-3, the second 12-10. The champion now employed all of those hackneyed stage flourishes that mar his more fervid performances. Even as actors of genuine talent sometimes paw the air and mouth their lines, so Tilden permitted himself an occasional half-stagger; he took off his shoes and played in his stocking feet; he poured buckets of ice-water over his bleak brow. However crude his technique in indicating to the gallery that...
WHITE CARGO?One of the oldest settlers still telling its fervid tale of white men and brown women in the wastes of Africa...
...number 82. Two are to be published posthumously. She was not a slow and painstaking writer, stringing her words like gems through hours of precious toil. She allowed twenty chapters to a novel, wrote a chapter a day.* Her themes never varied. They always had to do with love?fervid, magnificent love. Her exemplary heroes and heroines she invariably nursed benevolently to a final altar?at least to an engagement ring. They might always be presumed to live happily ever after...
...raised throughout the liberated Provinces. People who had enthusiastically acclaimed the French as their long-lost brothers after the Armistice, were now driven to unconcealed dismay. On the one hand was the clear impossibility of maintaining German laws in French Provinces; on the other hand was the fervid determination of the Catholic population-a large majority-not to submit to anti-Catholic laws of the French Republic...
...utter Hell. The worst situation has some promise in it, while there is always something seriously the matter with every "period of prosperity," even from the beginning. The developments of the past two months are quite generally encouraging, yet common sense is still needed to counterbalance the fervid rhetoric of the revivalist school of business prophets...