Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I am amused by the fervor with which some TIME readers advertise the mosquitoes and flies in their altitudes. (Of TIME, July 11). The absence of insects of that nature in the Black Hills is more properly attributable to our lack of stagnant waters than to altitude...
...theatre of his inspiration at Bayreuth in 1876. Since then, the Wagnerian operas have been presented as he wished, but the scores are not burned nor is the theatre torn down. Neither unfortunately do others go and do likewise. But the music is preserved and sung annually with the fervor which characterizes the Passion Play of Oberammergau. Last year there was no festival at Bayreuth, because the theatre was undergoing necessary post-War repairs. This year, however, from July 19 to Aug. 20, it is being resumed under the stage direction of Siegfried Wagner .(son of the composer), the orchestral...
...British-Japanese Naval Limitations Parley at Geneva (TIME, June 27 et seq.) continued static and unfruitful last week despite the holding of a public session at which the position of each of the three delegations was restated unchanged but with polemic fervor. Reduced to elementals, the deadlock could be stated in two stages...
Thus, in sonorous phrase, Mayor Mederic Martin of Montreal called its citizens last week by proclamation to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Canadian Constitution. Throughout Canada virtually all other mayors made similar proclamations, though none exceeded the majestic fervor of the Mayor of Montreal...
Lawyer Clarence Darrow, whose Lake Placid address partook of the fervor of a national legend, often addresses Negroes, with a fervor entirely his own. Many a member of the John Brown pilgrimage went to hear Mr. Darrow, in Philadelphia, make his usual speech about the "race" people. In this speech Mr. Darrow says...