Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interest in munitions makers, decided to collaborate. Each had already written one book: Engelbrecht, a study of Johann Gottlieb Fichte; Hanighen, a biography of Santa Anna. Roving Newshawk George Seldes, brother to Litterateur Gilbert Seldes, has taken the lid off many a pot of trouble, stirred it with journalistic zeal. Onetime reporter on the Chicago Tribune, he has dabbled in Art, is now a freelance, has written four books (You Can't Print That!, Can These Things Be!, The Vatican...
...impecunious should be forced to forego much of this interesting work for the sake of marks which may mean little. There is everything to be said for a plan which will make it possible for those students in need of scholarships to be judged on the basis of their zeal as well as their ability to obtain high marks...
...matched achievement with new zeal...
...brilliant young lawyers who actually write the bills which the President sends to Congress as part of his program. Many of them are in their '20s and most of them are called "the hot dog boys" because they are disciples of Felix Frankfurter. Because of their intolerant zeal for drastic action, because of their youthful enthusiasm for largescale reform, they exert a potent, if nonpolitical, influence in shaping the whole character of the Roosevelt Administration. Political Washington has never seen their like before, and last week political Washington suddenly held its breath because of them-hardly knowing whether...
...different in this respect are the other negroes, who seem to be seldom outside the church. Where modern amusements are either too far different, too expensive, or too wicked, the meeting-house bell is heard by all. Mrs. Peterkin has depicted the peculiar religious zeal of the rural negro with humor and understanding. Her description of the frocked deacons, the collection plate en parade, "testifying," and the weird frenzy of the confessional "stomp" seem incredible to one who has not witnessed these things first hand. A more lofty spiritual tone pervades the sonorous "lining out" of hymns to those...