Word: fervor
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Wives of some great men remind us that we can make our lives sublime. The enthusiasm with which Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt throws herself into teaching, baby-culture,* charity and social crusades is rivaled by pistol-toting Cornelia Bryce Pinchot's fervor on behalf of working women & children. Early one morning last week at Northampton. Pa. a State car rolled up to the D & D Shirt Co. factory and out stepped Pennsylvania's First Lady, clad in a red corduroy coat, red hat. Pinned on Airs. Pinchot's coat was a streamer labeled: STRIKER. At the head...
...omit the annual General Assembly next May. To save $25,000 in delegates' expenses the Assembly will be held in Columbus, Ohio instead of Fort Worth, Tex. But beyond that the Presbyterians will not go. Indeed, last week, fighting for their Assembly aroused some of them to higher fervor than they have displayed in many...
...like an oldtime anti-slavery meeting in the New Jersey Assembly chamber at Trenton one day last week. The crowd whooped and hissed, not quite aware where its humanitarian instincts ceased and where its sectional fervor began. Georgia had come to take Robert Elliott Burns back to one of its notorious chain gangs. Almost everybody in New Jersey thought he had a good idea of what a chain gang was like. The case of Arthur Maillefert, 22-year-old New Jersey boy who died last summer in a Florida sweatbox, was fresh in mind (TIME, Oct. 24). Radio and Press...
...violent contrasts, of sudden and unpremeditated changes, who welcomed paradox with open arms and accepted the contradiction of life on its own terms. Sir Walter Raleigh could violate his own word, giving a whole town to slaughter, and yet celebrate the power of death in a peroration of romantic fervor. Marston was a satirist of brutal and unscrupulous force, who saw the inside of a London jail before retiring to the ruminative dullness of a provincial pastorage. The dramatist who celebrated a ruinous love in Egypt could see only fraud and treachery in the heroes of the Iliad...
...confused somewhat irrationally that abstract attitude toward war with the very actual inspiration that carried these men forth. It is devoutly to be hoped that we shall all, in time, appreciate the futility of war even if we cannot appreciate its cruelty. But we may hope with almost equal fervor that our disdain for war itself be not transmuted into disdain for those who died on the battlefields of the past. No matter how we may regard the cause that they championed, we must acknowledge that they championed, we must acknowledge that they championed it with loyalty and courage...