Word: rabidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their pencils until after the opening night, so Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson passed as a patriotic gesture. Like the openings which have gone before, the Metropolitan's 1933-34 season began as a social spectacle. Chief interest seemed to be that John Pierpont Morgan was there, rabid on the subject of photographers; that Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt was wearing a diamond stomacher; and that Emil Katz, the Metropolitan's caterer who during Prohibition bought William K. Vanderbilt's cellar for $70,000, was selling champagne again, for $2.50 a glass...
...turns popping in & out. He pins things at last on the most disarming member of the cast, after a sentimental interlude with another Chinese (recognizable as such by black pajamas, bent knees, croaking falsetto, handscraping). All this is capably strung together but will take the breath of none but rabid Channists...
...socialism, tariff, and banking, do not lend themselves to adequate treatment in a small discussion group. They require a depth of learning and clearness of exposition which only the capable lecturer can offer. The discussion of certain other subjects in small groups often is robbed of value by those rabid partisans; ever present, whose personal convictions approach the rigidity of madness. Untutored remarks, even though inspired by the assurance that silence will be severely penalized, are apt to become more amusing than instructive. The need for a guiding voice is obvious...
...Rabid imperialist, Rhodes once sneered at British policy as "philanthropy-plus 5%." Sometimes called a coward, Rhodes quitted himself like a brave man when the Matabele ran amuck and were proving costly to subdue. Unarmed, with a few companions, Rhodes went among the Matabele warriors, persuaded the chiefs to air their grievances and lay down their arms. Only big mistake of Rhodes's career, which cost him the loyalty of many a South African, was the Jameson Raid into the Transvaal, which it was hoped would finish President ("Oom Paul") Kruger and his Boers, bring the Transvaal into Rhodes...
...storm have come to Tremont St. to wither away like the smile of a Freshman waiting in the Dean's office, while ball teams that have not seen the light of the first division after July 15 in the memory even of a medical student still draw hordes of rabid fans...