Word: fervor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlanta, Ga., journeyed dapper Walter Hagen, noisy Bill Mehlhorn, dour Bobbie Cruickshank, swart Gene Sarazen, with many another expert, professional wielder of wood and iron. They were to compete in the Southern Open Golf Tournament, suddenly of great importance because of record purse. They hoped with fervor for money; they also hoped for the almost unattainable honor of beating Bobbie Jones, amateur...
...years have passed. The newspapers of the East united yesterday to mark the solemnity and the import of the occasion. Yet, in the eloqence and in the fervor of what was written on editorial pages, it became only too easy to overlook the news that these same papers carried. One, in its leading story, describes relations with Mexico as strained to the point of war. Another leads its front page with a story picturing the armed menace of the new Germany. Others discussed the rumblings of war that have thundered out of China ever since the Nanking incident. Every paper...
...whose miner sons were killed by the explosion, Premier Baldwin said: "I have come to see you as man to man-not as Prime Minister. I feel very sorry for you in your great loss." Meantime Mrs. Baldwin held Mrs. Button's hand, urged Mrs. Button from the fervor of her own faith to seek consolation in prayer...
...Witch Of Salem tells of those fearsome days in stern Massachusetts Colony in the year 1692, when religious fervor sometimes mounted to fanaticism, goaded honest people to the ugly business of hanging human beings suspected of witchcraft. (This was more really indigenous to American ancestry than plots about Indians or Creoles.)* Sheila Meloy (Irene Pavloska) to win the indifferent heart of Arnold Talbot (Charles Hackett), accuses the young man's Puritan sweetheart, Claris Willoughby (Eide Norena) of being possessed. Her evidence: a peculiar birthmark. At the very last minute, the little Irish girl repents, averts a cruel execution...
...present death-struggle between Conservative North and Progressive South there is something of the religious fervor of Cromwell's Ironsides, traces of the Liberty, Equality, Fraternity of the Jacobins, oven a hint of the class war of Marx and Lenin. Among the ranks of the Chinest revolutionaries are also certain men suggesting the drill commanders employed by our own patriots of '76, only instead of French and German military experts, the Southern Chinese have chosen instructors and advisers from Soviet Russia...