Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said he: "Injunctions have been issued which by their terms went beyond any proper limit and sought to deprive men of a lawful exercise of indisputable rights. They have been framed with partisan zeal and their effect has been to cast upon the courts the performance of duties which properly belong to those executive officers of the State or nation who are primarily charged with the preservation of public peace and public order...
...like a flock of unclean birds hastening to the feast, it gathered from the four winds and descended upon the city. The Little Green House in K Street was set up for sinister purposes but partly disclosed. Its occupants and their friends soon proved that they lacked neither zeal nor appetite...
...issue of July 14, TIME described in some detail the July number of Physical Culture Magazine, spoke of Editor Bernarr Macfadden as "the Nation's best-known body-worshipper," possessed of an apostolic zeal for "cultured" pictures, "frank statements," "plain advice...
Certainly not. Bernarr Macfadden, the Nation's best-known body-worshipper, knew perfectly well that whether or not the public partook of his pure, apostolic zeal for "physical culture," it was keenly interested in the "cultured" pictures, "frank statements," "plain advice...
...Business, known as 'house organs.' Said I: 'One of the features of national intensity which is most open to criticism is the thing called a house organ, which is now unescapable in modern life, designed to focus the collective energy of large enterprises and coordinate the zeal of their departments. These journals are keys to strange chambers in the industrial soul of America. I forget what this particular magazine was run for-let us call it the organ of the ventilated mouse-trap trade. After reading a few issues you gather that, in the opinion...