Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...view of all this one may wonder what induced his speech. If it was a sincere regard for the laws of the land, one might expect him, to show more zeal on his own part. Lingering soreness over the outcome of the coal strike settlement may have played some part. But the most plausible hypothesis is that of a political motive. He has already announced that if affairs at the White House should not proceed in accord with his standards, he would toss his ha into the presidential ring. Since he came into the governorship on a wave of reform...
Because of the proposed heavy burden of taxation, Die Rote Fahne (Red Flag), Berlin Communist daily, published a proclamation: " We are the organized power, but we can conquer only when every Communist is filled with sacred, tireless zeal for the revolution...
Grand Rapids?home of medieval zeal...
...center of the furniture trade in the U. S. Few even of the élite know that Grand Rapids is also the center of the vanishing cognate art of woodcarving. In the Ryerson Public Library the Woodcarvers' Association of Grand Rapids holds an annual exhibition, filled with the zeal of the medieval craftsmen. There are only about 1,000 hand-carvers in America, all told, and 157 of them are in Grand Rapids, though at one time they numbered there 375. The artists to whom the hand furniture industry gives employment are chiefly the Dutch, German and French. They...
...pronounced as to threaten the existence of the Church, which had grown to be a fair-sized organization. Brigham Young, Vermont painter and glazier, who had been baptized in 1832 and soon afterwards ordained elder, made his influence felt by his " indomitable will, persuasive eloquence, executive ability, shrewdness and zeal,'' and was ordained one of the " twelve apostles " who were sent out in 1835 as missionaries to the " gentiles." He was given the title of "The Lion of the Lord...