Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soft voice, a quick, nervous laugh. Even in her coal mining office she dresses as most women dress for tea. At 47 her dark hair is greying, the lines of her firm jaw broadening, but her blue-grey eyes have lost not a spark of their vitality and fervor...
...people need for a high standard of living and if the internal resources of men, nature, and machines cannot supply them, then find out what must be imported. National interest will then be acquiring what we need with the best possible advantage." In closing Mr. Beard said with some fervor that "I expect to see American blood spilled on Manchukuo soil in order to sell American cigarettes and kerosene to Chinese coolies...
...them. Last winter, when blood spattered the Place de la Concorde, only ex-President Doumergue, as Premier, had prestige enough to save France by organizing a truce which last week had lasted nine long months. Now that his truce must end, how would he end it? With all the fervor of a sterling bourgeois and a passionate Republican, M. Doumergue exhorted Colonel de la Roque not to attempt a Fascist solution of the crisis...
...Howard Lawson which the Group Theater has chosen as its second play of the current season. Forcefully conceived and superbly constructed, it tells the story of a Russian Jew in his struggle for power and self expression. Cursed with a driving ambition, an unlimited imagination, and a suppressed poetic fervor, Sol Ginsburg rises ruthlessly to the domination of a great business firm. This mad search for power drives Sol from his love for Sarah Glassman; his restless soul is never satisfied; his confused ideals and desires lead him on in unceasing search for anything which seems inaccessible to him. Having...
...missionary rally on his own, started the money-giving stampede on the spur of the moment. Declining afterwards to pose for photographs, he said: "There are people who may misinterpret the incident and have an idea that it was done with some thought of publicity." Nevertheless the evangelical fervor which he aroused was heartening to General Convention members who were worrying about finance. True, the Everyman's Offering raised by Charles Phelps Taft II amounted to more than $250,000. True, the women's Thank Offering came to $807,747. But the latter can be used only...