Word: rabidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even the most rabid Klansman must feel at times when he puts moth balls in his uniform after a parade, that perhaps history will sneer at him, at his fiery crosses and his spooky Klonvocations. But, at least, in the encyclopaedias where uncolored statistics can cover a multitude of hokum, he and his several hundred thousand "brothers" will get Justice, find Pride. Perhaps he was disillusioned last week on looking into the three new supplementary volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, wherein able Arthur B. Darling, one of the rising young assistant professors in history at Yale, disposes of the modern...
Professor Black's clipping reads, in part, as follows: "An animal owned by H. N. Smith of Montgomery, Ala., saved its master and itself from being bitten by a rabid dog by seizing the dog with its teeth and hurling it through the air. The dog fell into a well close by and was drowned...
...teams settle into the race down the stretch, the attendance appears as considerable as ever, and the crowds of rabid U. S. gentry who mill through the turnstiles at the parks to watch the play, blaspheme the umpire, masticate peanuts, popcorn and chewing gum, are as diligent and enthusiastic as in the summers of yesteryear...
...time Secretary of Labor (1913-21), the Democratic nominee for governor of Pennsylvania, who reported personal campaign expenditures of $88 and roused Democrats to fury at President Coolidge by revealing, reluctantly, that after the nomination the President had offered him a post on the new Railway Mediation Board. Rabid Democrats interpreted this as showing that the President held Mr. Wilson's chance for election in Pennsylvania, and even the honor of running, to be of no account...
...many invaluable paragraphs appearing in the LETTERS columns of TIME constitute a fund of interesting and instructive reading. However, the paragraph captioned "Wales Flayed" on p. 2 of the issue of Nov. 16, does not. It is silly, childish, rabid...