Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three-quarters of a century ago in Portland. Maine, a fierce form of religious fervor overtook a hardshelled Yankee named Andrew J. Johnson. Seeking out his young brother-in-law, Johnson accused him of writing songs in league with the Devil and, thrusting out his self-righteous chest, shouted: "I am bound to be a soldier in the army of the Lord! Glory! glory, Hallelujah!" Thomas Brigham Bishop, a farm-boy from the village of Wayne, jokingly set his brother-in-law's tirade to music. As popular as any popular song, Glory, Glory, Hallelujah was sung...
...magic. The conviction that but for their luck in having known him, they would be more deaf and more dumb than they are, that in truth he has helped them to live, is the reason why he is the object of a cult in which there is such fervor, such affection and such gratitude...
...nearly everyone else, Lilo Linke was morally affected by the insanity of inflation. She stole books, sold them, began to slip towards the maelstrom of Berlin's delirious night life. What saved her was the Youth Movement. Into this earnestly idealistic confraternity Lilo Linke threw herself with desperate fervor, gave all her interest and every spare moment to its passionately serious meetings, its Spartan week-end jaunts. Her ambition and ability soon made her a leader, and at a national gathering her girls' group was judged the best in Germany. But even Youth Movements grow up. Leader Linke...
Being expert at such work he picked the Administration's most vulnerable spot and began to hammer. The greater part of the Senate despises Huey Long. But Senator Norris also despises Postmaster General Farley with the fervor of a man who hates patronage; Senators Cutting, La Follette and other liberals despise Mr. Farley because in the last election he put the Democratic Party ahead of liberalism; most Republican regulars despise Mr. Farley as a matter of policy. Mr. Long was shrewd enough to pick Mr. Farley as his target, thereby gaining a maximum number of allies...
...refreshed with liquid refreshments, grabs gun and runs out into street; woman, being likewise, follows, coat absent and hair flying in the wind; gentleman, supported on the slippery ice by woman, aims gun at urchin; urchin, being heroic, stands ground, grabs snow, molds missile, projects it with zeal and fervor; woman, being on ice and copiously refreshed, dedges too late; urchin runs like hell; gentleman, being gentleman, retires with woman and unshot gun; nor murders, no tutors, no harm done...