Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banquet address Mr. Hoover did not (like Mr. Stimson previously) attempt to speak with fervor, but his painstakingly read remarks contained one fine superlative...
Gold Star Mothers. From racial ties the Ambassador passed with ever-increasing fervor and sincerity to the theme of Motherhood. "We have recently had in London," he cried, "a body of American travelers representing a cross section of the American people, representing the heart and soul of the American people, representing the bone and sinew of the American people and the proud attitude of the American people?a body of travelers not self-invited, with their minds occupied by thoughts of society reporters or fashionable dressmakers, but mothers invited by the Government of the United States to make their first...
Small storekeepers, craftsmen and farmers are the people who vote for Carl Gustaf Ekman and his People's Party. He used to be the village blacksmith of Munktorp in drowsy Vastmanland. As he shod horses he talked Temperance. After a while he began to write with devout Lutheran fervor against what Englishmen call brandy, Frenchmen eau-de-vie, Swedes Aquavit. Five years before the War, Munktorp's literary blacksmith took the road to greatness, accepted a call to Eskilstuna, where the owner of the Eskilstunakurirers made him Editor...
First an expedient, Cuba has grown to be a passion with Mr. Byoir. Through the Post's columns he fights her cause with all the fervor of a native. Cubans took him to their collective bosom for his magnum opus, a thoroughgoing study of the sugar industry and a series of smashing antitariff editorials which, spread over the front page of the Post, were widely quoted...
Whenever a Supreme Court opinion shows that fervor and forthrightness which men usually describe as "youthful" it is almost a safe bet that it is Justice Holmes's writing. Only this week, dissenting from the majority verdict in a double taxation case, he spoke in characteristic tones. "As the decisions now stand," he wrote, "I see hardly any limit but the sky to the invalidating of those rights (the constitutional rights of the states) if they happen to strike a majority of this court as for any reason undesirable. I cannot believe that the (Fourteenth) Amendment was intended to give...