Word: zealots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...revolutionist at deep-dimpled 19, flung a bomb, was exiled and imprisoned, grew morose and introspective, escaped, flung another bomb, was again exiled and imprisoned, became hard-featured and hollow-cheeked, again escaped, flung no more bombs, led the frugal, self-denying, intensely industrious life of a typical Communist zealot, rose steadily in the Party to her present dizzy eminence, where she is unquestionably the world's record money-woman of all time. The Jewish Telegraph Agency exclusively announced last week from Moscow that the world's record woman is a Jewess...