Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extraordinary achievement she has accomplished with the translation of all my books, from Buddenbrooks [1924] up to the last volume of the Joseph series. I am fully aware of the tremendous difficulties which my not exactly simple way of writing puts in the way of her mediatorial zeal and faithfulness, and I cannot appreciate enough the great credit Mrs. Lowe-Porter has earned with her linguistic reproduction of my work for the English-speaking public. Not always have the reviews done her full justice, and that is why I wish to express my appreciation publicly. My literary standing in this...
Chaplain Clinton A. Neyman, reported Chaplain Gatlin, "reprimanded me for my zeal in winning men to Christ, saying that there were other duties more important . . . told me ... that I did not have the Navy picture." Chaplain Gatlin added 'but I knew how to show a man who was dying how to go to Heaven." The Beacon termed the Navy chaplaincy situation "most deplorable," said "it concerns definitely every true Christian in the United States of America." The case of Chaplain Gatlin might be extreme. It was not new. Last year the Navy forced Chaplain Norbett G. Talbott to resign...
Many North Dakota Republicans see a dismal choice of evils between Gerald Nye's rabid, unrepentant isolationism and the Langer machine's shady political reputation. With evangelical zeal, the state's businessmen, mostly political amateurs, are backing a third candidate: able Lynn U. Stambaugh, 53, onetime (1941-42) National Commander of the American Legion. Trim, hearty Legionnaire Stambaugh, a successful Fargo lawyer and long-time advocate of U.S. participation in world affairs, has invested in 53 red-white-& -blue billboards for a high-pressure campaign. But the grain growers and stockmen who cast most of North Dakota...
...occasional loyalty to such mild holdings as two jacks or three treys, and his reformist zeal for keeping all the other players honest, can cost him dear when such scientific pokerists as Ira Eaker are present. Says Mrs. Spaatz, philosophically: "That's where the flying pay goes. It's an old Air Force custom. They all have that feeling: 'What the hell, let's take a chance...
...Ministers. Guests were surprised when the child entertained them with discussions of "such matters as the Test and the Corporation Acts, or the interpretation of a point in Scripture:" At the age of 13, Hazlitt published a passionate defense of the Reverend Joseph Priestley, radical and scientist. But his zeal for religion faltered; young Hazlitt decided to become a painter. Art proved tumultuous. When his canvases displeased him - as they often did - Hazlitt slashed them to pieces in fits of rage. Nice girls also displeased Hazlitt. When Charles Lamb introduced Hazlitt to a group of them, the essayist snarled that...