Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without sex appeal we should design a suit in vivid red materials; red symbolizes love, fervor and fire. Certainly such a costume would give him a more pleasant experience than any emotional stimulus he may benefit from...
...Roman Emperor Maximianus commanded an officer named Victor, a convert to Christianity, to burn incense to Jupiter. Victor not only refused to obey but in a burst of religious fervor toppled over Jupiter's altar, smashed the god's statue. For his deed his right foot was chopped off before he was executed. In the course of time he came to be venerated as St. Victor the Martyr by the Roman Catholic Church. Years later his foot, now a relic holy to many a French Catholic, was acquired by the Paris church of St. Nicolas du Chardonnet...
...developed into such a gently archaic poet that readers of his laureations are apt to forget his hard, seafaring youth. But Masefield himself has not forgotten; ships have always been his lights-o'-love, and in The Bird of Dawning he returns to them with his old youthful fervor. This tale of clipper ships of the China sea trade, just before the days when steam swept sail from the seas, would make a young man's reputation, should shore up old Poet Masefield's against the seeping criticisms of sentimental mediocrity...
...despite this a posteriori testimonial of what youthful fervor can do, it is doubtful that a move to organize rallies for the varsity football team would meet with unbounded enthusiasm. Among the upperclassmen at Harvard there has for years existed an aversion toward those organized orgies which from a prelude to major athletic events in many an American institution of learning. The bonfire, the snake dance, and the night shirt parade are no doubt wholesome fun, but they are burdens which the scholastic atmosphere of Cambridge has long been spared. A terse crystallization of the local attitude toward such childish...
CASH ITEM-Catharine Brody-Longmans, Green ($2). Watchers for the U. S. Proletarian Novel have been disappointed again & again. Last year, when Catharine Brody published Nobody Starves, many of them hailed book and author with pent-up fervor. Though Cash Item disobeys the strictest canon of proletarian literature by having a "hero," a "heroine." its attack on U. S. economic conditions in general, on small-town banksters in particular, should raise more proletarian huzzas. Plain readers will find it uncomfortably interesting reading. More effective as anti-bankster propaganda than a more straightforward indictment, Cash Item is writtten in bare, matter...