Word: zealotism
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...Raymond Robins was prospecting for gold in Alaska when he had a vision of a gigantic luminous cross against a snow-clad mountain. He fell on his knees, prayed. After making his fortune in gold, he returned to Chicago, took up social reform. A pallid-faced, burning-eyed young zealot, he crusaded up & down Halsted and West Madison Streets against vice, liquor, crime, cor ruption...
National attention focused on the Governors of three States last month when pleas for executive clemency were urged in behalf of a political zealot, a convicted bomber and a 12-year-old murderer (TIME, Dec. 7). Of the three prisoners, only one continued last week to hope for mercy...
...Philadelphia, Orlandi Spartaco, whose antiFascism impelled him to jump on the running board of visiting Foreign Minister Dino Grandi's car two months ago and shout insults, was released from jail on $1,000 bail. The Italian statesman had pleaded with Governor Gifford Pinchot to release Zealot Spartaco from a two-year prison sentence...
...California and the Governor of Pennsylvania had something in common last week. Each was begged by a celebrated individual from far outside his State's boundaries to extend executive clemency to a prisoner of his State. The prisoners were a boy, an aging man and a political zealot. In one case, California's, the plea was publicly resented as an impudent intrusion. In the other two cases public opinion was chiefly favorable to the prisoner and his advocate from afar...
...lash, lash after lash, lash after lash. . . . The priest at length ceased to scream, fainted, lay as though dead. To the faithful His Majesty then stated that Her Majesty never lifts her vail in public, thereupon strode from the mosque with clinking spurs while fellow priests revived the flogged zealot...