Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nostitzes escaped to Finland, were trapped again in the Ukraine, eventually got out by way of Constantinople. In Paris and New York Countess Nostitz ardently propagandized against the Bolsheviks, flinging "her entire energies into it, even at the risk of being unpopular." Despite her zeal, the only success she could record was that of persuading the late Senator Medill McCormick, who had "leanings towards 'giving the Bolsheviks a chance,' " not to visit Russia...
...noise that lungs and instruments could make, carrying placards with which each state tried to outdo the rest in promises of victory. Sixty-one minutes after the demonstration began Senator Robinson informed the demonstrators that they had broken all endurance records, had exceeded "the estimate." Drunk with their own zeal, the delegates could not stop. Alabama's Governor Bibb Graves was turned loose before the microphones to make what was presumably a seconding speech into a sea of sound...
Comptroller General? If Pat Harrison goes down to defeat in Mississippi's pri-mary this summer, it will not be a sentence of exile from his beloved Washington. A level-headed party regular whose lack of enthusiasm for some New Deal experiments has not abated his zeal helping to bring them into being, he has served his President with a loyalty which cannot well go unrewarded. The Comptroller Generalship, which John R. McCarl will vacate July 1, is believed by many to be his for the asking. In that $15,000-per-year job he would be sure...
...movement within the walls of Harvard comes as a surprise to the great mass of the proletariat also lodged, for various reasons, in these same hallowed precincts. Especially does this failure take on rather a poignant note when it is remembered that fully 350 ardent undergraduates have expressed their zeal by registering with the central bureau in Washington, but have been stopped on the threshhold of a shining success by the lack of leadership. No one has stepped forward to take on his shoulders the flaming mantle of the great Jouet Shouse. In this crying wilderness no prophet has arisen...
...assiduously trying to put out of business for more than a year. Last month Oil Royalist Jones won from the Supreme Court a legal victory and sweet revenge in the form of a verbal thrashing administered by Justice Sutherland to the SEC and all other New Deal agencies whose zeal might be exceeding their authority (TIME, April...