Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years since that day, Archduke Otto has devoted his life, with the sober zeal of a Gilbert & Sullivan clown prince, to the cause of Restoration outlined in that childish paper. From Madeira the impoverished family moved to Spain, where 40 Spanish grandees bought them a villa...
...Their ephemeral zeal for economy already fading, Senate farm leaders settled back into their historic spend-now, save-later philosophy, concentrated on adding $200,000,000 for parity price payments to the Farm Appropriation Bill. Yet many a Congressman still felt self-conscious about tossing around the taxpayers' money. Commerce Committee Chairman Josiah William Bailey, of North Carolina, decided to cut the $412,638,600 Rivers-&-Harbors Authorization Bill in four parts, on the theory that this quartering would make the whole bill easier to swallow. Pork-hungry Senator Bailey sizzled defensively at the immediate insinuation that...
Among U. S. Christians who care for the poor, none are more blessed with selfless zeal than those Roman Catholics who labor in the Catholic Worker movement. Their leaders are rugged, genial Peter Maurin and tall, dowdy Dorothy Day, who run a "House of Hospitality" in Manhattan, edit the Catholic Worker, a 1?monthly with 125,000 circulation...
...private citizen he devoted himself with single-minded zeal to bulldozing his country into preparedness. He wrote four textbooks on defensive tactics, one for each season of the year. He hounded the Government into increasing each year the 12% of its budget it originally appropriated for the military. He organized the Civic Guard, 100,000 strong, as a permanent reserve force. In 1931 his old sidekick, Per Svinhufvud, then President, made him President of the Council of Defense. Two years later he became Finland's only Field Marshal. Mannerheim threatened to wash his hands of the whole business...
Living up to a set of rules like these would make the Pacific Conference the nonpareil purity league of U. S. football. Unless its 1940 intentions turn out, after all, to be just New Year's resolutions, the Conference, in its repentant zeal, might become a circuit of universities like Chicago, which last season purified its football team out of existence. One man who sincerely hopes that may not happen is 47-year-old Clark D. Shaughnessy, coach of great Tulane teams for a dozen years, Chicago's coach (succeeding great Amos Alonzo Stagg) for the last seven...