Word: fervid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frank Murphy was confirmed in the Catholic Church at Harbor Beach, Mich., when he was twelve years old. That year all the children in his class at the parish church pledged themselves to drink no alcoholic liquor before their majority. For fervid Frank Murphy that was not enough. He went home, took a further pledge: to his adored mother he vowed he would not touch a drop so long as he lived...
Along with these big little names, there are a hundred littler writers who hew much closer to the Nazi Party Line and whose books and pamphlets, simply written and well printed, are creating a National Socialist popular literature. Nazi poets write in fervid, ABC language. Sample verse...
...Roman Empire is now eclipsed by the much-predicted decline & fall of the civilization now current. Because he wrote colorfully and lacked the wide propagandist streak of many modern historians, Edward Gibbon seems to most present-day readers less the greatest English historian than the most industrious and fervid of historical novelists. About the only part of Gibbon's reputation so far not attacked is his claim to being the ugliest historian in English literature, and of having produced, for his size, the most impressive work...
Many a U. S. Army and Navy brasshat has publicly echoed the fervid words of his present Commander-in-Chief, "I hate war." Few would deny that they love to play at war, particularly when they may pick their own playgrounds and seasons. Last week two of 1937's three major U. S. war games were in full roar...
...been organized, the question arises, "What is the function of such a Council?" Naturally, it is the more eager concentrators who form such a body, and it somehow works out that the more eager are the more radical. There is thus danger that the Council may gather together a fervid little knot of propagandists, eager for the Call, and bent on missionary work among the economic heathens. Any insistence on generally unaccepted doctrines would be bound to alienate great numbers of potentially valuable followers, and would end in futility. The harder but wiser course is for the Council...