Word: rabid
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...cartoons in the show were a cross section of rabid Isolationist Fitzpatrick's daily stint, from bulge-jawed Mussolinis and neurasthenic Hitlers to war-racked skeletons, the bums and shady politicians of St. Louis' own legendary Rat Alley. Fellow cartoonists took their hats off to Fitzpatrick's slick technique of getting his points over without capsizing his cartoons with explanatory captions. Fitzpatrick's muscular draftsmanship and Doré-like spaciousness (see cut) are, if not art, something close...
...point. TIME meant no reflection on Colonel Donovan who has done a first-rate job of unofficial observing for the U.S. Colonel Donovan's loss of his wallet was correctly reported in the Feb. 3 issue. In its Feb. 17 issue TIME merely tried to show how a rabid pro-Axis newspaper dishes out "news," neither intending nor believing that any TIME reader would give any credence whatever to blatantly Nazi El Pampero's tale...
...discharge obligations," Comrade Litvinoff, an old revolutionary who had worked with Lenin on the early Communist Iskra (Spark), who once played the fence for money stolen in a train robbery by Comrade Stalin, who was the only moderate to push his way to the top through the ranks of rabid 100 percenters...
Cambridge undergraduates are sentimentalists, rabid ones, according to a canvas of merchants in the Square made at a late hour last evening...
Robespierre did not make the Revolution, as Napoleon said, but he did "drive many people to madness who without him merely would have been fools." He followed the now-familiar course-from reformer to revolutionist. Like Lenin he transmuted a rabid hatred of his own class into a social system based (at first) on a sentimental love for the proletariat. Like both Lenin and Hitler, Robespierre knew that revolutions never stop at the point where reformers would like to freeze them. And he thoroughly understood revolutionary politics. "To dare!" he said, "is all the politics of the Revolution." His attitude...