Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrival and then directs the new arrival to disappear. Fifteen minutes before the wedding, he can contain himself no longer and returns. The bridegroom, reasonably and yet quite unreasonably irritated, makes a scene. The bride hurls her wedding bouquet on the floor, swears at him with authentic modern fervor and falls into the Dutchman's arms...
...Student, lately rejuvenated intercollegiate newsweekly, of no visible party bias, last week published its own, semi-complete survey of "the political fervor in the colleges." It found that this fervor seemed to de- cline "in proportion to the distance of the institution from Washington, D. C." Republican headquarters had reported 300 active Coolidge clubs, the result of expenditures by Chairman Butler. The Davis College League listed 100 clubs. The LaFollette forces, lacking literature, had created no clubs directly, but clippings from the undergraduate press convinced the editors of The New Student that there were as many La-Follette as Davis...
...time of the Dreyfus affair, France flung himself into the defense of the persecuted Jew with tremendous fervor, side by side with Emil Zola. Later, an Officer of the Legion of Honor, he hotly opposed the expulsion from that body of Victor Margueritte, author of La Garconne...
...deed aroused Italy, including most of the Opposition, to a fervor of indignation such as the Latin races alone are capable of displaying. Flags were at half-mast all through the Peninsular ; places of amusement were closed; many shops had posted a notice on their closed doors: "Have closed as a sign of public mourning." Indignation was heightened and sorrow became more profound when it was learned that the murdered Deputy was a poor man and had left a widow and five young children totally unprovided...
...after the première of his Anna Karenina at the Teatro Costanzi, Rome, she invited him into the Royal Box and complimented him effusively. A distinguished Italian critic, Federico Candida, used the following somewhat confused expressions in describing the music: "Accentuated, even excessive, passion-evident research-sacred fervor-rich harmony-harmful sonority- heavy orchestration-exuberance and defects-character and distinction. . . ." One may wonder about the esthetic fitness of entrusting so indelibly Russian a theme as Anna to an Italian. Why did not Tschaikowski try his hand...