Word: fervorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston, 79-year-old Dickinson S. Miller, an ex-Harvard professor of philosophy, fought eviction from his one room apartment with new fervor. When his landlady snitched his key some months ago, he had made the window his doorway. But when "a sudden incursion of people" swept away his bed, the lights and most of the furniture while he was in the bath, Professor Miller went to law. He wanted his bed back...
...without. To cure the inward sickness, MacVeagh holds emphatically, in his quiet voice and brilliantly phrased dispatches, that the U.S. must move in and virtually run the country to make its aid effective. Yet, with Byron, he has "dreamed that Greece might still be free," and striven with Byronic fervor to make the dream come true...
Perhaps the Odets drama has lost just a little of its fiery workers-of-the-world-unite spirit--at any rate the current Pasadena address of its anther hangs in the background to dispel any idealist fervor. But the Dramatic Club cast manages to wring from the script more of the tragic social significance than could be expected perhaps even of a professional group...
That, as some Englishmen would say, tore it. For, as a result of that brief encounter, the bigwigs of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer are now immodestly slapping their own backs with the fervor of flagellant monks. They have acquired, little Miss Kerr, and they suspect that she might be the biggest thing that has happened to M-G-M since Greer Garson...
...Objectors. Clayton, who made a fortune in cotton, stood on that line with a crusader's fervor. But the line was being assaulted. Washington, last week, heard the first sharp words of a bitter fight which could tear the so-called "unpartisan" U.S. foreign policy apart. The attack came chiefly from Republican Congressmen...