Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Frank Hague wasted no time in gloating. With his old-fashioned starched collar tight above a chaste pearl stickpin, he went out to remind the people of his years of toil in their behalf. With revival-meeting fervor the Boss told his followers that he was still pure at heart: "Let them point to one blemish on my record as mayor of Jersey City!" Liberation Candidate Paul E. Dougherty almost blew a gasket. Cried he: "... On a salary of never more than $8,000 he can own a summer home worth $125,000, a home in Miami...
...reaction to World War I was typical of the average U.S. reaction of that day. Editorially, he plunged into it with all his fervor, calling it "the greatest revival the world has ever known since Christ came upon the earth." He won an Editor & Publisher award for a stirring editorial on Liberty Bonds, and received President Wilson's commendation for his patriotic stand...
...year Robert Browning and Jefferson Davis died (1889), brash young Lloyd George, bubbling over with a reformer's fervor, won a seat in Parliament. His sharp tongue quickly made him enemies. In the wholesale barrage of criticism he inspired, he was charged with everything but cowardice. Belaboring Lloyd George became a Parliamentary habit. During his long career, he was denounced (among other things) for pacifism, for hypocrisy, for devising soak-the-rich budgets, for tactlessness...
...Cross" is a mammoth in the tradition of the twenties, when producers undertook to carry out such colossal, stupendous ideas as filming the Bible. It demonstrates the obvious fact that sensuous revels cannot be mixed with martyrs to produce sincere religious inspiration, and it proves that the genuine fervor of the Passion Play cannot be transferred to the screen...
...important function of radio's own governing body, Adman Smith thinks, should be to plug radio itself, on the air, with commercials defending commercials. Sample Smith plug which an announcer might read with seductive fervor: "Friends, just take a moment and look around your home for the various items that have made your life easier, happier. . . . Dozens and dozens of these things, you'll find, were recommended to you over your radio. ... So today, let's tip our hats to radio's forgotten man-the radio advertiser...