Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hierarchy, indeed, are the Jews of the Administration, but they are by no means insignificant. Their power rests not upon their jobs but upon their great industry, their extraordinary mental ability and their crusading fervor for what they conceive to be the high and remote ideals of the New Deal...
...Romantic fervor also found its way into book illustration, which, forming a part of the page, are called vignettes. The process, developed in England, spread to Paris, where in the '30's a formidable number of illustrated books were produced. The interest was shared between new editions of famous literature and contemporary writings. Thus "Gil Blas," "Don Quixote," "Paul and Virginia," are exhibited with Goethe's "Werther," Nodier's fairy tale "Tresor des Feves," Reybaud's political satire "Jerome Paturot," all with blocks cut after designs by Johannot, and Gigoux and others...
...America is now in the background merely watching the formation of the mob. "He probably is saying to himself: 'I am their leader, but they don't know it. I will study their moods, so that when the time is ripe I can catch their emotional fervor. Then they will ask me to be their dictator.' "Thrice did the mighty Caesar refuse the crown." Meantime newshawks got Braintrusters Taussig, Landis and Berle to deny knowing Dr. Wirt, got Braintruster Tugwell to admit that he had never even heard of him. Washington guessed that Dr. Wirt had talked...
...within the liturgical framework. He was too deaf to know the noise he made at home, too deaf to hear any of his music at the first Vienna performance in 1824. Nevertheless he insisted on standing in the pit and beating time along with the regular conductor. With a fervor and concentration worthy of the music Arturo Toscanini gave the Missa Solemnis last week its first performance by the New York Philharmonic, the first he has ever conducted. For the occasion he had 250 choristers from the New York Schola Cantorum and four expert soloists-Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Contralto Sigrid...
...passion for Italy, visits it whenever he can. Heavyset, strong-featured, with big ears and an impressively high bald head, Spengler at 53 still has great physical vigor, delights in tireless mountaineering and long hikes, likes to converse with peasants, whose quips and saws he collects with fervor, repeats with gusto...