Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tuesday and Wednesday were similarly days of prayer and speech. On the last day of this Congress religious fervor was to be at its highest. Every cleric not incapacitated or ordered elsewhere was to go to the Seminary of St. Mary of the Lake. Hundreds of thousands of laymen were to follow by train and motor car. The greatest religious spectacle ever produced in the U. S. was to be consummated...
...Spanish crave, Raquel Meller to the contrary. Maria Guerrero had the most to do. She fulminated and she growled, stamped and tore the plays to bits. Most of them were lurid melodramas, sensitive to this sort of treatment. Spaniards in the packed galleries howled back their delight with equal fervor. Nordics called it movie acting, excellent of its type but uninteresting to us. Some of them cruelly termed the proceedings "ma?...
...Lampoon, pitching with the fervor and skill of years' experience reached great heights, not to mention the home plate, with the pitch of excellence. But the legion of CRIMSON bats was as impenetrable as the Old Howard on Saturday night and victory perched not upon the Ibis's bough...
...much good any of these meetings does is doubtful, if one expects that a renascence of religious fervor is to spring forth from the hearts of those who wend their way to Northfield or to Lake George or any other of the collegiate Chautauquas. Of course they do afford pleasant rendezvous with other brightened and enlightened who can spend holiday hours hearing inferior lectures which they would cut were they given at college. So perhaps they are quite necessary. At least they do keep the Billy Sunday tradition vital in the college world and give many a young wall flower...
From the back of the room, Augusto Turati, new Secretary General of the Fascist party (TIME, April 12) exclaimed with fervor: "Once again God has saved Italy!" Meanwhile the Premier's old friends recalled other instances tending to show that "his temperament is by nature fearless." It was told again how, when he was an editor in Milan, he used to keep several bombs and hand grenades upon his desk, in case his political enemies should attack him. Once, while writing an editorial, he set fire to the fuse of one of these bombs by accidentally resting his cigaret upon...