Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. But then, of course, there isn't one?who so pedantic as to expect it? For here is the delightfully discursive scrivener of The Sun (New York) spattering ink joyously, provocatively and with impartial zeal through the fields of Art, Music, Writing, Soldiering, after-dinner Speeching, and his own particular stamping-ground of the Theatre. He sees everything...
...place pupil".--Waterloo was to see him starring in his old position, with Wellington showing that laziness is superior to mere lack of education, such as Napoleon's. These Germans, in invading the scientific world, find further that Darwin neglected his three R's shamefully, and in his naturalistic zeal set out on many punitive expeditions after cats. Nelson, Clive, and Goldsmith also find their names on the roll of the "know-nothings...
...Indeed, let us go further and say that we had better abate somewhat our zeal for repressive legislation...
...attempt of the author to show the evil side of college life so that someone else may come along and remedy it, is, I think, laudable. However in the zeal for reality one must remember that even Truth has its place. One has only to read Swift's poem on a lady's dressing room to appreciate the extreme to which realism may be carried. Desirability will always remain a paramount condition. Our bad side is incidental and our faith in college should be great...
...given. He is St. Francis of Sales. In a recent encyclical, the Pope presented him as the Patron Saint of the Catholic Press. He was Bishop of Geneva, Switzerland, 1602-1622, in the days when the Calvinistic "heretics" had to be withstood. He was noted for the energy and zeal displayed in his missionary work in the province Chablais, a stronghold ot Calvinism. His practical advice to defenders of the Faith was given to the world in 1608, when he published his Introduction to the Devout Life...