Word: rabid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Williams' conscientious method of presenting every side of all controversial questions in his Money and Banking courses is well known and appreciated. His practical point of view and balanced attitude on questions over which it is easy to become rabid, will help him to perform to perfection his new functions as Dean of the School of Public Administration. The President and Fellows of Harvard are to be congratulated on their outstanding choice...
Even in 1920, when there sprang up in Denmark a campaign to overthrow the monarchy, set up a Republic, King Christian continued to ride through excited crowds in Copenhagen's streets. The movement came to nothing because the most rabid Republicans decided that popular King Christian would be the only possible President, concluded they might as well retain him as King. On May 14, two days after George VI's Coronation in London, comes the Silver Jubilee of Christian X. Representing Denmark at Westminster Abbey will be Crown Prince Frederik, who will then fly back by specially chartered...
...gallery-goers last week to realize that six of the nine Realists were once members of a group that called itself The Eight,* and was formed about 1908 to show these paintings which academicians of the time were regarding with all the horror that their descendants now save for rabid surrealists. Though they were ardently in favor of their associates' ambition to paint the New York life that surrounded them, Artists Arthur B. Davies and Maurice Prendergast never painted that sort of picture. They were thus omitted from last week's show and their places taken by three...
...rumors of its contents flew. News-tickers flashed it to the floors of stock exchanges and stockmarket prices took a swift tumble. It spread in banner headlines across every newspaper. Presently it appeared that the U. S. was not .only surprised but also rather shocked. Only the most rabid New Deal newspapers openly applauded. The alarm of the independent press that ordinarily supports the Administration was typified by the New York Times, which sternly said: "Cleverness and adroitness in dealing with the Supreme Court are not qualities which sober-minded citizens will approve." Said a Scripps-Howard editorial writer: "Though...
...even the most rabid partisan can carp and criticise when the picture of the lower courts is painted dark and dismal. District courts throughought the country, and especially in populous and important financial centers, like the lower New York area, are bogged down in labyrinthinc legal tangles that take years to unravel. While cases sit on the docket for months in and months out in the vain hope of coming to trial, money is lost to all contenders as settlements drags out to the edge of doom, and the inevitable lawyers hover about like harpics waiting for their fees...