Word: zealotism
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...course this is not Andrew Volstead. Volstead is a myth. Volstead is a figure as noble as John Barleycorn is sinister, a powerful crusader, a tower of righteousness, a leader of a great cause?or, if you prefer, he is a bigoted little reformer, a benighted, misguided zealot...
...striking scene wherein the elders display an ostrich morality, convinced that a scandal is buried if only a marriage takes place. But it rears its ugly head in another striking scene, when a fanatic Negro zealot arouses the primitive instincts of the phlegmatic Dutchmen by the simple process of beating a drum and thumping their theological frenzy. Louis Wolheim ("Hairy Ape") as the Negro handled that drum up to the climacteric hysteria like a Sousa of the soul. Ann Davis fills poignantly the repressed role of the girl, and Frank McGlynn ("Abraham Lincoln") and Kenneth MacKenna are two other stalwarts...
...zealot of the Savonarola party has affianced his daughter to a fellow puritan. She is loved by a young gallant of the worldly party. The wedding is about to take place. Outside, the trial by fire is about to begin. The young gallant enters by a chimney. There is a; disturbance. The gallant makes a bargain with the zealot father. If the trial by fire does not take place, he shall have the girl. The compact is no more than sealed when a deluge of rain outside extinguishes the flames in which the test was to be made...