Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...patient votaries of that curious collegiate cult called "Buchmanism," received last week one of the rebuffs upon which they thrive. The Oxford Isis published a scornful editorial which spoke of "restraint flung aside . . . souls laid bare . . . hysterical confessions . . . fervor which no longer pretends to be religious . . . perverted religious mania . . ." and concluded with these stern and sober words...
Characteristically the Chancellor ignored the warning of his doctor's thermometer, and rushed impetuously into the verbal fray. He found the Laborites preparing to attack his new tax on petroleum fuels from a shrewd angle. They were about to plead with fervor the cause of the-poor-man-with-a-kerosene-lamp...
...ISLAND WITHIN- Ludwig Lewisohn-Harpers ($2.50). The author, a Jew, was evidently in a sweat of fervor when he wrote this novel. He cries out in his preface: "Then, in God's name, let us tell wiser, broader, deeper stories- stories with morals more significant and rich. . . . Let us recover, if possible, something of an epic note. To do that there is no need of high-flown words or violent actions. Only a constant sense of the streaming generations, of the processes of historic change, of the true character of man's magnificent and tragic adventure between earth...
...chronic organizer, he had propounded an efficient, unified student government, and drafted a constitution. The small campus boiled with political fervor, causing President David Starr Jordan to remark: "I wonder if I'm not presiding over a young Tammany Hall." The two parties were an "aristocratic" fraternity element v. a "barbarian" element led by the constitution-writer's friends. Hoover was reluctant to run for an office himself, but they insisted he was their strongest candidate for the important post of treasurer. Finally he said, "Well, perhaps I can swing it." Swing...
Smack! With childish fervor, His Majesty bestowed a kiss of welcome. He now waited for it to be returned. He continued to wait. Prince Peter, bonny and button-round eyed, gazed vaguely around, oblivious of what was required, but beginning to be slightly concerned about his mother...