Word: rabidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Defending the $40,000,000 Widow's Pensions Bill, famed Lady Cynthia Mosley, daughter of the late, great, crusty Conservative Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, made her maiden speech. A rabid Socialist M. P., she cried: "I have been getting something for nothing all my life! . . . Why shouldn't poor widowed women get something for nothing...
...again. A few years ago a board of burly policemen "laboriously read and censured" Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy." This expedition won the ancient city a renewal of its already venerable fame. But it seems this was not sufficient, or at least the action was not rabid enough. This time "Candide", Voltaire's great philosophical novel has been seized by the Collector of the Port. The immortal work has been arraigned on the charge of "obscenity and obscurity." (Of course, it will surprise no one that M. Voltaire has been found obscure by such gentry as Collectors...
While the voting was in progress, William Randolph Hearst's scarehead newspapers burst one morning upon the street with rabid appeals not to make an Anglomaniac the Bishop of New York. The shock of this insolence caused a revulsion in Dr. Manning's favor, and he was speedily elected to the high office of Cathedral Heights...
Chairman Raskob had some photostats made. He obtained affidavits from people in Mississippi, Kentucky, Kansas and Tennessee who described instances where Republican officials, State and national, had engaged in whipping up anti-Catholic animus. The most common offense seemed to be handing out The Fellowship Forum, nauseous, rabid Klanpaper (see p. 59). Two of the owners of this sheet, Mr. Raskob noted, were Republican State Chairman R. H. Angell of Virginia and William G. Conley, Republican nominee for Governor of West Virginia...
...York Herald Tribune, arch-Republican, surpassed all recent metropolitan precedents in the rabid partisanship of its headlines...