Word: rabidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scrooby, in Shakespearean times, when William Brewster, lord of the manor, first listened to the Brownists preach of a God whom the Church of England failed to recognize. After a stormy career at court Brewster retired to his country home, became the mainstay of what was regarded as a rabid sect. Among these were Eleazar Dexter and his younger brother John who, though saints of a kind, still thought enough of the devil to fall in love. Both loved the same girl, but in different ways. Eleazar was a religious bigot who loved Anne in order to save her soul...
...sudden appearance of purple Englishmen," Author Fort found chief interest less in single marvels than in marvelous relations and coincidence. With humorous seriousness he retells here, mostly from newspaper sources, scores of gruesome or simply inexplicable incidents, tries to find a place for them in his philosophy. Rabid vampires, with white streaks of froth on their bloody mouths, flitting through the jungles of Trinidad seem to him connected with more human affairs. In 1867 a fishing smack set sail from Boston; among its crew was a Portuguese called James Brown. Two of the crew were missing, were found...
...rabid Republican partisan. On the contrary I am a Cleveland-Wilson Democrat, but better than that I am a loyal American...
...decree forcing Thuringian school children to pray every morning for abolition of the Young Plan and the Treaty of Versailles-two Fascist platform planks. That Dr. Frick was forced out last week marked a Hitler defeat, but a defeat which should remove from public notice a Fascist so rabid and reckless as to be the worst advertisement his party...
...Luke, everything is exactly the same. The Fabers have the same position in Rome as in Rivertown, the same conservative point of view, the same worries and troubles with labor agitators. As in real life, Lucius finds the issue confused for him by falling in love with Marcia a rabid Red. When she is killed in his arms the shock brings him back to Rivertown again, and the first thing he learns is that the real Marcia has really been killed. Then he is in a chaos. Still violently opposed to the Reds, he begins to doubt the divine right...