Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this melange is critical and interesting. As the world knows, he is the nominal bulwark against the Anschluss and its proponents, the Nazis. Keyed up by a buoyant egoism which has led him to exploit his four feet eleven inches as a little Napoleon, and supported by considerable religious fervor, he has snatched at every straw to consolidate his position. To take the wind from Nazi sails, he has become a real dictator with actually Fascist principles, though professedly an amorphous Christian Socialism. How long will he last? That he is still in office can only, I think, be regarded...
...have followed his addresses printed in a Seattle paper, for over a year, and have only found the purest Truth contained in them; urging his people, and all people toward a clean, righteous life. The audience there may be a bit noisy sometimes, in their fervor but that is not criminal, and in time will quiet down...
Since no public building seemed a safe place to inaugurate Provisional President de Cespedes he gave an inaugural garden party at 9:30 a. m. on the wide terrace of his handsome house. Flashing-eyed Cuban ladies embraced each other and their escorts with patriotic fervor as eight judges of the Cuban Supreme Court arrived majestically in their black robes. No foreign envoy, not even U. S. Ambassador Welles, was present. Amid sizzling heat Dr. Cespedes. perspiring in formal morning clothes, took this brief oath: "I swear faithfully to fulfill the duties of President of the Republic and enforce...
...factory clean enough. There was a refectory with more than a dozen long tables and a kitchen whose iceboxes burst with pork chops, chickens, choice cuts of beef. There was a large nursery where some pickaninnies slept, incredibly, for upstairs 300 dusky adults were shouting their evangelical fervor. They were in Heaven, a real Heaven of free food and no work promised and produced by Major J. Divine, a black, benign, inexplicable little cultist...
...drives him between communities. Des Moines hostesses call him a ''natural," conversational entertainer. A 200-lb. six-footer, he recently abandoned crutches, took an artificial leg. On the large grounds of his Des Moines home he has an elaborate court for croquet which he plays with intense fervor. Professionally Dr. Bierring's experience has been broad- postgraduate studies in Austria, Germany, and France, professor of the theory & practice of medicine at Iowa State and Drake University, and a potent officer of many a medical board...