Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...efforts to censure the recent "subway riot" of a few undergraduates, refers to Harvard in insulting language, achieving no more in its accusations than the bad-manners which it claims to have discovered. With the exception of a similar affair last spring, which was aggravated by too-zealous policemen, there is no recent precedent for the occurrence on Monday evening. Such an isolated and mild occasion scarcely calls for the thunders of the press to be couched in the terms of the accompanying indictment...
...Herbert Clark Hoover was born a Quaker, his mother being zealous in the communities of Friends in Iowa. Mrs. Hoover was an Episcopalian, but adopted her husband's faith after their marriage. Hoover's reticence before the public was said to be due largely to his Quaker upbringing...
...honored among ocean voyagers, settled down to the business of doing justice to some of the 2,000 bottles of beer, 200 quarts of. champagne carefully selected from among the many which producers had fought for the privilege of presenting to them. But not for lone. In spite of zealous storm detouring, a gale blew up that rent the port stabilizer, buffeted the ship. A reduction of speed became necessary while repairs were being made...
...Charles H. Clark, editor of the Textile World, has been zealous & learned. He solemnly told the cotton men at Pawtucket last week, that: "Thorp was born in 1784, presumably in Rehoboth, Mass., the son of Reuben and Hannah (Bucklin) Thorp. No records of the date and place of his birth have been located, but entries in the Bibles of his brothers, David and Comfort, agree that at the time of his death, Nov. 15, 1848, he was sixty-four years old. For the assumption that he was born in Rehoboth there is the fact that his father and mother were...
...Zealous Secretary-General of the Fascist Party Augusto Turati announced, last week, that he would stage "public rice maneuvers" during which the novel comestible would be lavishly prepared and guzzled in quantities...