Word: rabidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while Lee was on leave at Arlington, a rabid Abolitionist named John Brown, with five Negroes and thirteen whites, stormed and captured Harper's Ferry Arsenal. Terror and violence were in the air. A small band of militia attacked; Brown held his own. The next day relief came, the U. S. Marines! At their head rode Colonel Robert E. Lee. The arsenal was recaptured. Brown, whose soul was to go marching on, was captured...
...adventurous and inquisitive Provincetown Playhouse tucked darkly away in downtown Manhattan has made another rabid experiment. One Michael Swift, distressed at many phases of U. S. life, particularly at the craze for gold, has collected his complaints in a play. He sets it in the California gold rush days and much of it occurs in a boisterous bar. Gold is discovered under the floor. There is a gold rush. Bright scarlet women circulate suggestively. Men howl for whiskey. There is no pretense at connected story. Mr. Swift is seemingly as much at war with dramatic forms as with this world...
...jail, with the implication that it might be a glass house where one could break stones and not throw them. But Mr. Enwright was not cast down, and arose Prometheus like with his sickly pinkish paper which is an avowed attempt to outdo the most rabid tabloids. And it is unbelievably successful...
...seriously, it is a book that will please the football coach, player, and rabid spectator, because it is written so that anybody can enjoy...
...pointed out that college songs are no harder to learn than the light, soothing music with which touchdown-thirsty patrons are entertained during dull periods of the game. The Athletic Association has further made things easier by scheduling only seven games that require separate letters, for even the most rabid stickler on form could scarcely object to using the Purdue "P" for the Pennsylvania game. Philologists further point out that none of the Crimson's rivals--except Holy Cross, which because of its double initials presents grave geometric problems--is very difficult to lay out. What, for instance, could...