Word: fervorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What sparks the Chamber's fervor? Said Morris Pendleton, president of Los Angeles' Plomb Tool Co.: "We know that Los Angeles is a big city but not yet a great city. We get a hell of a kick out of trying to make it great...
...goals in the first period reflect the trend of that frame, as the first two lines played like a team again. The opposition caught fire in the second frame and outplayed the tiring Crimson that was hampered by changes in line personnel. But in the final frame, Harvard regained fervor to take the offense for six more tallies...
...largest Communist-dominated union in the land. U.E.'s leaders, from big-bellied Al Fitzgerald down, have denounced the law's non-Communist clause with furious fervor, have refused to sign the affidavits. This week the company, on the strength of the NLRB ruling, severed relations with U.E., despite an agreement which runs until April...
Several of the performances are first-rate. Canada Lee plays with dignity and fervor one of the few thoroughly unpatronizing screen roles ever given a Negro. Lilli Palmer is a sensitive and lovely actress. John Garfield, having dropped some of his Dead End mannerisms, gives a good performance that is as hard and simple as a rock...
...each day, the Archbishop of Moscow forbade, for hygienic reasons, the kissing of icons; an outraged mob killed him. When in 1812 Napoleon marched on the city, the Governor General of Moscow issued a communiqué to the people which was a typical mixture of civic concern and religious fervor: "Thank God! All is well in Moscow. . . . Bread prices have not risen and meat prices have gone down. . . . Our protectors are, before the Lord His Holy Mother and all the saints who rest in Moscow...