Word: fervor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During the House debate, proponents of the Sales Tax did their best in its defense. But their words lacked fervor and conviction. They explained how, broadening the Federal tax base, it bore on all equally, how it did not discriminate like an excise tax among industries, how it could be easily collected and. above all, how it would bring in enough money to balance the Budget. They also argued that the tax would be absorbed by competing manufacturers and middlemen, would not be actually felt by consumers...
BROTHERS-L. A. G. Strong-Knobi ($2.50). , Along the rocky shores of the Western Highlands live hardy fishermen who catch lobsters in their naked hands, make Scotch moonshine in the veiling mists. With barnacle-like fervor they cling to the briny customs of their fathers. Silent (when sober) almost as clams, they are also prone to stew in their own juice. Peter Macrae is clever, his younger brother Fergus is strong. In all useful pursuits, fishing, seal-hunting, Fergus outstrips his brother. Peter hates him for his open disposition, his drunken glees with Captain Aeneas M'Grath, a roisterous...
Donatello's St. John the Baptist embodies the spiritual intensity of his other versions of this subject. This Tuscan boy reveals in its ascetic beauty the religious fervor and the introspective side of the Renaissance character. This expression of thought and the splendidly structural modelling of the head make this a worthy example of the master's work...
With its slanty eye cocked on China, all Japan trembled with patriotic fervor last week. General elections were coming, the budget was unbalanced, the yen was falling, Government bonds were off. But about such things few subjects of the Emperor cared when Japanese arms were carving out world headlines in Shanghai, Nanking, Harbin. Flags fluttered from every Tokyo home. Troops drilled in every barracks. Full of martial memories, reservists tramped back and forth to business, pretending their umbrellas were guns. Proud Japanese fathers lectured their sons on the honor of dying for Nippon...
Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science turns hypnotism upwards and inwards, makes it mostly self-hypnotism. Cured of incipient paralysis by a professional healer, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, she borrowed his practice, added to it a religious fervor all her own. Faith and churches were her remedies for almost every disease...