Word: rabidly
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...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...
Railroad employees in a "North country" city, Valleyhead, which is singularly dependent on the line in question for all the necessities of life, stirred by a rabid socialist, strike precipitately. The unyielding owners, as also the rest of the community, for the issue is clearly defined, must eventually capitulate or starve. Unfortunately for the cause of labor, the railroad men rouse the opposition of the local medical profession by extending their food boycott even to the Valleyhead Infirmary. To bring relief, two young surgeons, despite the secret warning of Ben Ormerod, the spokesman of the employees, attempt...
...Pretty rabid talk, isn't it ? You would see red, too, if you had seen all your savings melt away because you owned an equity in an Iowa farm when financiers saw fit to de press and deflate. The hell of it is that thousands of farmers in this state and others saw the same thing, and who got the money? Tell us who got the money...
...America going to renounce its cardinal principle of freedom of thought and religious belief? The hard-won victories of the early days will be meaningless and in vain, if the rabid Fundamentalists succeed in foisting the chaos of medievalist upon the land. The great advance of civilization in the last fifty years has been due in overwhelming measure to two things which this cataclysm would utterly destroy--intellectual freedom and the advance of science...