Word: rabidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bitten by a dog, remember this-not once in many thousand times is the dog rabid. Rabies exists, but it is very rare. Of the almost uncountable bites inflicted during a term of years on attendants in the New York City dog pounds, not one caused a case of rabies...
...formally accepting his nomination for the Presidency, Governor Landon chose to fight with cold water the fire of New Deal enthusiasm (TIME, Aug. 3). Against the advice of those who felt that Republicans must start a back-fire of enthusiasm, against rabid New Deal haters who wanted him to preach a holy crusade, Nominee Landon offered no burning sentiments, spoke in no burning voice. Last week in accepting the Republican Vice Presidential nomination Publisher Knox of the Chicago Daily News cut loose with a red-hot attack on the New Deal which made GOPartisans jump with...
Died. James Montgomery Beck, 74, onetime (1921-25) U. S. Solicitor General thrice (1927-35) US. Representative from Pennsylvania, constitutional authority rabid anti-New Dealer; of coronary thrombosis; in Washington...
Salty sentiment, miniature suspense, and tuneful nonsense combine to make of Shirley Temple's "Captain January" a truly delightful morsel. Miss Temple is a sufficiently important national figure to have given rise to some pretty rabid opinion, both pro and con. At times perhaps there is a little too much of the demonstrative cherubim about her. There might even be some basis for the allegations that she is losing her figure. But when people start calling her a major menace, just put them down as being a little too emotional about their unemotionalism...
...program is so different that every one who writes on the subject does so with a prejudice. This latest volume suffers from the extreme dislike of the author for the Soviets but it is only by reading it and balancing this collection of essays with the works of equally rabid partisans of the system that we may be able to secure a fair picture. Perhaps someday a Sinclair Lewis will arise among the Russians and be able to write about his people with out prejudice...