Word: rabid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times last week phoned local psychiatrists for a diagnosis of Harry James's rabid fans. The experts agreed that love of rhythm and the desire to dance are "perfectly healthy." One neurologist, who would not let his name be used, explained: "All of life, all humanity, the cosmos itself, is built upon the beat principle. . . . Its appeal is closely connected with mob hysteria, for you see the same responses in Germany, in the Niirnberg meetings, for example, where the multitudes are swung together under control in a certain direction. One of the secrets of Hitler's power...
Both party caucuses adjourned without action on three major issues that will really test Administration leadership: i) extension of reciprocal trade agreements; 2) extension of Lend-Lease; 3) broadening of Social Security coverage. Rabid Republican partisans and Democratic conservatives may be tempted to wage a political fight on all three. (There are already demands for a Lend-Lease investigation-inspired apparently more by Congressional dislike of Harry Hopkins than of Lend-Lease.) But level heads of both parties wanted no partisan disruption of the war effort...
...Democrat with a rugged individualist's distrust of the New Deal: he opposed the Third Term as a delegate to the 1940 Chicago convention, became a rabid Democrat-for-Willkie, was drafted by the Republicans this year when their original candidate died. Says Individualist Moore: "I consider money a tool with which to work. It's a responsibility and I've used it to give employment to thousands of men. ... I want to use my money in my own business to help build my country. That's my religion...
Once there was a foolish Freshman who came to Harvard filled with rabid notions of Economy. Consequently he Rebuffed all invitations to Subscribe to the CRIMSON with Great Gusto, little realizing the Awful Fate which was in store...
Among the claimants Virgil Markham counted two literary scholars, a college student, two feminine "appreciators," a former collaborator and "rabid admirer." Most persistent was Mrs. Florence Hamilton, of Wellesley Hills, Mass., with whom Virgil Markham has exchanged subacid letters in the New York Times. Mrs. Hamilton not only claims that Poet Markham authorized her to write The Intellectual Biography of Edwin Markham. She also claims that she possesses the original manuscript of The Man With the Hoe. Another "original" was bought by a private dealer for $700 several years ago. Virgil Markham owns a third "original...