Word: perfervidly
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...quietly sipped ginger ale. The others enthusiastically laid plans for a Fortean Society which would propagate Fortism to the ends of the earth. The exhilaration of that dinner passed. In 1932 Fort died in The Bronx. But one man kept his discipleship alive. This was Tiffany Thayer, whose gaudy, perfervid novels (Thirteen Men, Thirteen Women, Illustrious Corpse, etc.) are not unlike the writings of Charles Fort, and who keeps a 9-ft. python...
...many a preacher and layman has grown tired of discussing Dr. Frank Buchman's Oxford Group. But in Canada the subject is still alive. Last week in Toronto Dr. Thomas Todhunter Shields, radio preacher and perfervid Fundamentalist (TIME, Sept. 17), told his Jarvis Street Baptist congregation...
...demonstration made in various places last week over the first publication of a book, a magazine and a newspaper* printed on paper made from corn stalks was rather perfervid. Yet enthusiasm was warranted. One to two tons of corn stover (stalks, leaves, husks) grow to an acre. Only a small percentage is good for silage. The rest rots, making a national waste of 100 to 150 million tons of good vegetable matter a year...
With these perfervid paeans the drama-reviewers of Manhattan let it be known that they had caught Whoopee, a cute little musical show, starring Eddie Cantor and exposing to view large portions of Gladys Glad, Olive Brady, and the like...
...came with the Gleam in her eyes and betook herself to the Ninth Incorporated Methodist Church, where the Reverend Isaiah Poodle was holding service. There I was told she would sit for ten minutes by the watches of the crowd about the store when she would leave the perfervid Poodle as rapidly as she had come unto him. For the Reverend Poodle had but one subject on which to preach Sunday nights, and that was Pekinese Purgatory. And Cartrack being a pekinese resented his words even as he resented her existence. She believed devoutly in a purgatory, but she thought...