Word: fervor
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That, as some Englishmen would say, tore it. For, as a result of that brief encounter, the bigwigs of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer are now immodestly slapping their own backs with the fervor of flagellant monks. They have acquired, little Miss Kerr, and they suspect that she might be the biggest thing that has happened to M-G-M since Greer Garson...
...Objectors. Clayton, who made a fortune in cotton, stood on that line with a crusader's fervor. But the line was being assaulted. Washington, last week, heard the first sharp words of a bitter fight which could tear the so-called "unpartisan" U.S. foreign policy apart. The attack came chiefly from Republican Congressmen...
...everything in common except a name; they all worshiped Picasso's flat abstractions and muscular distortions of reality, and the clear, hot & cold colors of Matisse. Tracked down to their neat, freezing studios, they proved to share something more-a surprising lack of Left Bank bohemianism, and a fervor in the cause of modern art. Their fervor was that of disciples; Parisians, assessing their evident talent, anxiously waited for them to strike out on their own before handing over the keys of the city to them...
Some stages in history seem to resemble periods in the lives of individuals. As an individual is Born, grows and dies, so do societies undergo a similar cycle of birth, florescence and decay. And, like different individuals, different societies are charged with varying amounts of enthusiasm, moral fervor, faith in progress and the ultimate rightness of things --a conglomerate of moral values commonly designated by the inexact term, "idealism...
...believed in thrift, personal integrity, personal independence and the necessity of toil; he abhorred with equal fervor, tobacco, alcohol and ostentation. His favorite dishes were tripe and pig's feet. Although he was an officer of 43 companies and corporations, he shared a small, low-ceilinged office in Boston's museum-like State Street Trust Co. with his secretary (who comes from Illinois). He contemplated buying a new hat as reluctantly as he would have considered selling the house he had built in Concord...