Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liberals" like the Premier see more wisdom in taking any number of delicate bites at the Chinese cherry. If now Generalissimo Chiang, should really hurl China's whole force against Japan, with Russian cheers behind him, the bedseat-driving Premier would be genuinely dismayed. He hopes with "Liberal" fervor that he may enable the Son-of-Heaven to rise over North China without undue bloodshed and not upsettingly soon...
When the German Cabinet convened, the Führer spoke with rising fervor for nearly an hour and a half. The condensed official summary issued afterward ran to nine typewritten pages of fulminations against "the Bolshevist incendiaries of Valencia" and praise for the attitude of Benito Mussolini "which absolutely corresponds with that of Germany!" Even the newsorgan closest to mild von Neurath screamed in Berlin: "The only way to cope with the Red pirates is to weaken their military position...
With altogether commendable high-mindedness and altruistic fervor our contemporary "The Monthly" has come out with its thought for the month to the effect that since "faculty men are not well qualified to advise undergraduates" the burden of Freshman advising ought to be shifted to seniors in college. It is argued with all the freshness of a spring morning that seniors of high standing, "supervised and paid", would prove more valuable to the Yardlings than the present advisers who are widely admitted to be inadequate. But although no one can deny the almost criminal negligence that the officials of Harvard...
...proud man. Thomas a Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury, seeking and winning martyrdom. But interlarded with this central stuff are a chorus of sombre monks and another of wailing women who at one point rival 'the witches of "Macbeth' in their catalogue of the disgusting; paeans of religious fervor including an intellectual indictment of atheism; and, most daringly ingenious of all, an apology spoken by the murderers in the present-day language of a prosaic politician. The familiar casuistry of this episode is really much better suited for dramatic purposes than many of the pretentious poetic flights that adorn the work...
...oppose the President and to beat him. It saw that a campaign of frothy cloquence and red-herrings could persuade only two states, and has turned to the constructive strategy. Instead of parking in the middle of the President's road, to be mangled by the popular fervor he arouses when given a solid, reactionary opposition, the legislators are attacking his flank. The Sommers Bill granting full retirement pay to Supreme Court justices is an attempt to shunt the worthy aims of the administration into acceptable paths...