Word: rabidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rice falters. The author weakens his position by choosing that Captain Dale sell the ancestral seat to the "German-American Culture Society," presently launching his characters into vehement tirades of anti Nazi propaganda; furthermore he limits his point of view by making one of Dale's ancestors a rabid Northerner, and another no less a personage than Harriet Beecher Stowe...
...sentimentalism, rabid patriotism, and bitter feeling which go into the making of any great war may be seen here, as it were, in a birds-eye view. The means by which people were raised to unprecedented heights of jingoism by master professional, propagandists may be understood in every line. Something new in the world at the time, the posters are simple and direct, but very effective, and even now when war is considered the world's greatest evil, they have a punch which strikes home in a forceful manner...
...evidence is a chronicle of bygone Maine war heroes and sea captains, chief among them Kenneth Roberts' ancestors (already well-known to his readers). A new Maine hero is Colonel Joshua Chamberlain, commanding the Twentieth Maine Volunteers, who later, as Governor, was universally denounced as a rabid tory. But for him. says Roberts, "the Union army would have lost the Battle of Gettysburg and, in all probability...
...Thomas Kennedy but an obscure, conservative Pittsburgh law yer named Charles Alvin Jones on his tentative nomination than the excitement be gan. No reporters were present and most of them were unable to describe the scene in detail, but Thomas P. O'Neil of Phila delphia's rabid (pro-Roosevelt & proLabor) Record, wrote a graphic, if second hand account...
...internationally famed expert on taxation and government. Unaware that his academic neck was about to be chopped, square-bodied William Schaper was suddenly called before the regents September 13, harshly questioned by Pierce Butler about a complaint by the superpatriotic State Commission of Public Safety that he was "a rabid pro-German." Despite his denial of disloyal acts, the regents that night fired him for "his attitude." Schaper's friends charged the real reason for his dismissal was not his attitude toward the War but his advocacy, as a member of the Minneapolis Charter Commission, of public ownership...