Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appearing in an adjoining column, declares as one with the privilege of knowledge that opposition to the House Plan is "inconsiderable", and is bound to decrease rapidly. This optimism might pass unnoticed, a species of whistling to keep the courage up in the face of the facts, if its zeal did not plunge into a series of generalities as unwarranted as they are sweeping...
Sixty thousand Italians fired with religious zeal knelt in the Basilica of St. Peter's last week and 100,000 more bared and bowed their heads under a chill driving rain outside. Signor Benito Mussolini was not present, but his daughter Edda was on her knees in a part of the Basilica usually reserved for princes of the blood. For the first time since 1870 several cabinet ministers had officially entered St. Peter's. This was possible because the Papacy and the government of Italy had just patched up their 59-year-old feud by a treaty (TIME...
...will be difficult for the average citizen to believe that there is much zeal and eagerness on the part of the Secretary of the Treasury to secure adequate enforcement if he refuses this opportunity to develop and carry out an adequate program...
Heflin, Klu Klux Klan, free silver, William Jennings Bryan, prohibition, woman suffrage, McNary-Haugen farm relief may all be classed as attempts at reform. They have shared in common: lofty purpose, great zeal, and not a little oratory. Senator Oscar W. Underwood was opposed to each and every one of them. He saw something dangerous in them all. He felt that their purposes were not worth their methods. He was a complete Jeffersonian, and a quiet one at that...
What would American life be without the questionnaire? It testifies at once to the intellectual curiosity of the inquirer, to his industry and to the imputed zeal of the public. It is made to be answered. Presumably it is answered or the stream of questions would not flow around every subject under Heaven. The good obey meekly each request to deliver their minds and never grumble about the postage. There should be a questionnaire on "Who invented the questionnaire?" If detected, his birthday should be a national holiday. He has given us a precious "institution...