Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some zealous doctors used to advocate training tiny babies to evacuate at regular hours. Mothers would set their infants on "toidy seats," fight with them to move their bowels. Such strict training, said Dr. Aldrich, makes bowel control a reflex act, rather than a conscious process. When the stimulus of the toidy is transferred to a regular seat, the training is lost and the whole fight must begin all over again. A child can go dirty and play in his puddles, said some of the doctors, until he understands what a toilet...
Same day three anti-German agitators were put to death: one Szmul Tysselman, a Jewish emigre; one Henri Gautherot, a zealous French nationalist; one Jose Roig, a recruiter for De Gaulle...
...zealous curate, Father Chisholm got into trouble with one superior after another. Dean Fitzgerald, "refined and fastidious," had a young lady parishioner who had seen a saint in a vision, discovered a sacred spring, showed stigmata on her hands and feet, existed without eating. When Father Chisholm happened in unexpectedly late one night, found the young woman "stuffing herself" on roast chicken, her mother cried rather sensibly: "I've got to keep her strength up somehow." But Father Chisholm, appalled by "the folly ... of all human life," felt obliged to unmask...
...that pilgrimage of representatives of free labor and of today when free labor organizations practically have disappeared in Europe." Chief instrument in U.S. Catholicism's attempt to put the labor encyclical into practice is the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. This is a hardworking, zealous, frequently criticized, progressive little group which in the past 20 years has published 190 pamphlets and 30 books, held 80 regional conferences on industrial problems, operated twelve schools to train the Catholic clergy in labor, social, economic and church doctrine, promoted labor schools which teach ethics and economics to workers...
Leaning too heavily on the glass covering which sheltered the exhibits an over-zealous Biology D student had come out of his daze to find himself staring at an equally wide and glassy-eyed speciman of early American lobster. "Pardon me," was his sole comment. "Think nothing of it," replied his victim...