Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being copiously refreshed with liquid refreshments, grabs gun and runs out into street; woman, being likewise, follows, coat absent and hair flying in the wind; gentleman, supported on the slippery ice by woman, aims gun at urchin; urchin, being heroic, stands ground, grabs snow, molds missile, projects it with zeal and fervor; woman, being on ice and copiously refreshed, dedges too late; urchin runs like hell; gentleman, being gentleman, retires with woman and unshot gun; nor murders, no tutors, no harm done...
...quota of 30 new members which, when recruited, will comprise an entire squad. Squadsters will be dropped if they attend less than two Mosleyite meetings per week. Those who attend five or more a week may wear, while they keep up that average, the medal denoting "Highest Zeal...
...community can dodge the matter of censorship in some form, if only to have someone erase the literary effluvia of small boys and morons from lavatory walls. At what point this zeal must be curbed to avoid interference with genuine art is a difficult problem which Boston has assuredly not successfully solved. They made a real blunder some years ago in the matter of "Strange Interlude," and they attracted some noisy attention in the matter of Droiser's "American Tragedy" (the book, not the movie). Granting the extremely doubtful point that the second was "art," do you know...
Wrote Pundit Mark Sullivan of the New York Herald Tribune: "The zeal of those promoting the plan is evangelical, almost fanatic. The pressure on Congress is much greater than was ever brought by veterans for the bonus. . . . Promoters of the bill say it is supported by 10,000,000 persons over 60,10,000,000 more who have dependents over 60, and 20,000,000 more who expect to become 60 some time -and to whom the plan looks good. That would be about all the voters there...
...assume, for the sake of illustration, that the plan is pushed to actual enactment by the sheer zeal and determination of its believers. ... In the end, I suspect, there would be violent inflation - a marking up of prices of everything to figures at which the business turnover could stand a tax of $24,000,000,000 a year. At that point, the folk over 60 might be getting their $200 a month - but they would find they could not buy the automobiles they now think they could. A haircut would cost say $2 ; a sexagenarian meal of bread and milk...