Word: zealotism
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...Navy and went into the politics of Alabama, where he was born. He was in Congress as a Representative from 1907 to 1915. He was the first Congressman to introduce a bill for a Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution. From alcohol he leaped to narcotics. Now, 60, a confirmed zealot, he has homes in Los Angeles and Manhattan, communities salty with drugs. Last week he was in Manhattan to blow a large blast against the Jericho of dope...
...college, but had quarreled because she did not want him to be a minister. Myrtle married her second choice. When she died in childbirth of her first baby, Bruce found they still loved each other, realized too late he might have saved her for himself. Too much a zealot for his easy-going townspeople, Bruce was soon unpopular, obviously doomed to failure. Besides, the town was too small for three churches, would never have had the third if it had not been for old John Durken. In trying to convert the only educated man in Midland, a blind...
...that the Germans would smash up automobiles, break the windows of hotels and residences, put the police to route and make the town a noisy, disorderly shambles. Had the Boston Chamber of Commerce sent emissaries to Kaiser Wilhelm II to urge him to make Boston his headquarters, such a zealot would have been hanged in front of Symphony Hall. The war has taught us Americans not only how to take punishment but how to go after...
...puritans flooded the Spanish Postoffice, the International Postal Union. Plaints ranged from statements that what is art in Latin countries is obscenity in the Nordic north, to threats of official proceedings against the Spanish Government for sending obscene matter through the mails. To the postal union wrote a Swiss zealot...
Administration. "Faculty dictates are frequently enforced with just as much asperity and lack of balance as the orthodox zealot ever displayed in roasting a witch...