Word: fervid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the speakers had finished, their vocal supporter, who looked as though he ought to be a senator of the downeast type, rose to his feet and delivered a short but fervid address which started as a paean of praise for Wendell Willkie and ended as a denunciation of modern youth and Harvard in particular
Keynoter of the Mission is the world's No. 1 missionary, lean, fervid, greying E. (for Eli) Stanley Jones, who humbly calls himself "evangelist to the high castes of India." Dr. Jones went to India as a Methodist missionary in 1907, has since converted many a Brahman, written nine books (best-known: The Christ of the Indian Road, with sales past the 600,000 mark), founded at Lucknow the first Christian Ashram (from an Indian word meaning "a forest colony for spiritual fellowship and meditation"). In Indian costume-a long white cloak, tight trousers, sandals-Dr. Jones last summer...
Wendell Willkie was in Chicago next day. A cavalcade of 30 autos took him to the Union Stock Yards. In the stockyard stench he talked with fervid earnestness. His audience, some in bloodied aprons, listened with polite interest, few cheers...