Word: fervor
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...Angeles, was born the Los Angeles Times, which shortly was acquired by General Harrison Gray ("Old Walrus") Otis, a goateed, long-mustached turkey-cock who loved a fight and was sometimes compared to Editors Jones of the New York Times and Greeley of the Tribune. With true Southern Californian fervor the Los Angeles Times this week was celebrating the soth anniversary of that birth...
...graze at curb grass, the old man would stand up on the buggy seat and exhort passing citizens-workers from the foundries, the machine shops, the glass factories, attendants at the State Insane Asylum, farmers from Stark County-to vote for him as Republican nominee for Mayor. With the fervor of an evangelist promising heaven, the old campaigner in his stand-up collar and wide-brimmed black hat promised Massillon a new municipal water works and reduced water rates if he were elected...
...Splivalo, then unmarried, achieved prominence in Manhattan as the Salvation Army's "Angel of Broadway." Her evangelical fervor led to her arrest for blocking traffic. After that she left...
...spite of the applause which greeted the assertion that the remedy for political evils lies not in the red flag, but in the ballot box, and in spite of the fervor with which the bass drummer accompanied the singing of "The Internationale," neither the man of property nor the apostles of Lenin could glean much satisfaction from the proceedings. For none of the uniformed officers interfered with communist speakers, although outnumbering the twenty-nine avowed communists by almost three to one, they might have mastered them without machine-guns. And none of Moscow's emissaries attempted to heckle Mr. Fish...
Defendant Yakubovitch, a comical little man with a black goatee, led all the rest in fervor, waving his arms, shouting: "I know I deserve Death! I have no objection to it." But the sentences actually imposed were imprisonments of from ten to five years. Moscow shrugged...