Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bade godspeed to frail, silver-haired Presidential Assistant Lowell Mellett, for six years a zealous New Deal employe, not conspicuously employed since Pearl Harbor. Mr. Mellett, once a Scripps-Howard executive, will pundit a political column for the Washington Star...
Texans called these illegal emigres "wet feet." Some border employers complained that U.S. officialdom was too zealous in its efforts to stop the traffic. Border Texans were also howling mad because their local Mexicans were being "lured" in turn by northern and western farmers...
...Francisco Symphony, approximately 15% of whose annual budget is paid out of taxes, is one of the half-dozen finest orchestras in the U.S. It is kept so by San Francisco's first musical citizen, walrus-mustached Pierre Monteux. To those who watch Pierre Monteux still gay and zealous in the midst of music, it seems incredible that next week he will be 69 years...
Names such as Mather, Gore, Winthrop are common to the plates that hung on the harsh doors. Zealous advocates of stern religion left these rooms to lead the spiritual life of the northern colonies...
...something they could remember." Plugs & Plow Horses. "There are a great many good Catholic chaplains in the Army, men who are zealous, hard working, sacrificing. But I suppose it is no secret that the best priests aren't in uniform. The bishops and the religious superiors are not parting with their race horses. They release the plugs and plow horses - even a few problem children...