Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pausing a long moment; M. Briand let his words sink in, then cried with redoubled fervor...
...fencers--the resignation of the man who has directed Harvard fencing for eight years means the passing of a well loved personality. Fresh from the schools of France, where swordsmanship is still the gentleman's exercise, M. Danguy brought to Harvard a knowledge of the sport which his Gallic fervor quickly imparted to his pupils. His success became apparent in the records of his teams, but even more in the devotion of the ever-increasing number of men who came to learn from...
...highly amusing, climax when a near-hero is tied to the railroad tracks, to be rescued when the heroine smashes her way out of her freight-house prison with an axe and reaches him just before a cardboard locomotive trundles by. It is acted with true old-fashioned fervor by a cast which enters into the spirit of the occasion with a rush. Earl Mitchell is particularly convincing as the deep-dyed villain and whole-souled performances are contributed by John Ferguson, Helene Dumas, Ella Houghton. It is good fun if you feel like hissing, cheering and stamping your feet...
...Springs, S. Dak., one Lloyd Linton, 33, father of four, was suddenly moved to a paroxysm of religious fervor while standing in his brother's sawmill. "If thy right hand offend thee, cut it off," cried Linton's thoughts. Later Linton explained: "So I cut it off and prayed to God not to let it bleed much. It didn't." Handless Linton did not state how his hand had offended...
With shifting standards, with biographies professing to plumb the true nature of certain familiar heroes, there have been few figures left to epitomize the standard virtues. In the intense fervor of the present day writers to make realism vivid in its bloodiest detail, a little old-fashioned evangelism is, strangely enough, valuable if not essential. And if this evangelism can be made free of mysticism and endowed with the sincerity of a commanding personality, it supplies, despite its glamor of notoriety, an anchor-stone to many drifters on the modern sea of social and economic uncertainty...