Word: rabidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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PROHIBITION No Beverage Poisoning is a grim, sordid phase of Prohibition. The most rabid anti-salooner would find it hard to vilify a lawbreaker who went shrieking to death with poison scourging his entrails. Last week an epidemic of poison liquor deaths struck Manhattan. John Becak, wagon driver for the Morgue, said he never had such a busy week. During three days 33 persons succumbed. Most of the deaths were caused by wood alcohol. Most of them occurred on the lower east side waterfront. The city police arrested purveyors of a decoction known as "smoke" which sells...
Many a U. S. citizen distrusts a pacifist as though he or she were suspected of carrying the bubonic plague. This antipathy, so prevalent among storekeepers, salesmen, politicians, appeared last week more logically expressed, hardly less rabid, in no less potent a tribunal than the U. S. Department of Justice...
...sharp rattle of handclaps and a booming salute of "hoch! hoch! HOCH!" greeted Prince August Wilhelm, fourth son of Wilhelm II, last week, when he entered a Berlin auditorium into which 5,000 rabid Monarchists had jammed with intent to demonstrate...
Soon fiery Count Kuno von Westarp, leader of the second largest political party in the land, Die Deutschnationale Volkspartei introduced a still more rabid Monarchist, Col. von Struense, who proceeded to utter things which Count von Westarp, because of his political status, dare not say. Bristling and bellicose, Col. von Struense roared: "A turning point in German history has arrived-this evening marks the beginning of a fight which can end only in the coronation of a German Kaiser...
...battle with the business men who question the worth of college education. Although those worn figures can have no vital part in the individual's appraisement of his own culture, the educated must regret the passing of the only mutually understand dable data with which they could confront such rabid materialists as Roger Herbs...