Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Defendant Yakubovitch, a comical little man with a black goatee, led all the rest in fervor, waving his arms, shouting: "I know I deserve Death! I have no objection to it." But the sentences actually imposed were imprisonments of from ten to five years. Moscow shrugged...
...Posterity Will Curse!" When the till is short the cashier is supposed to feel guilty. With an almost religious fervor Mr. Snowden cast the onus of this guilt upon his predecessors at the Exchequer. He directly faced and was seen to point an avenging finger at Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin (who as Chancellor of the Exchequer negotiated the Anglo-U. S. debt settlement) as he said...
...undoubtedly in the trough of a moral as well as of a business depression, not that there is any connection between them. The high moral fervor of the war period has been followed, very naturally by a cynical reaction. The evidences abound on all sides. What Agnes Repplier called the decay of reticence, and what others call by a harsher name, indicates a general breaking down of standards. The way students steal books from college libraries is another evidence of a general moral slump. These evidences cannot be entirely dissociated from political corruption, unscrupulous business methods, racketeering, and general lawlessness...
...develops that the land is already a British possession. Defeated, cast off by all save a mulatto girl, Harvey realizes that the only reason she has stood by him is because she is not pure Negro but part white. Actor Wilson's role is played with earnestness and fervor, but the play has not been written well enough to bring out its brilliant possibilities...
Beyond sportsmanlike plaudits for the R-100's victory over the storm (which the officers and crew tried to minimize) there was little public fervor shown over the flight. Apathy may have been due partly to British propaganda emphasizing the experimental aspect of the venture. But also was expressed dissatisfaction that the Air Ministry's $11,000,000 program (the R-100 cost $2,250,000) begun six years ago for linking distant units of the empire, should still be so far short of fulfilment. Enthusiasm had been dampened by mishaps to the R-100 and its sister...