Word: fervor
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Newspapers entertain a medieval fervor for crusades. Happy the editor who can turn sensational "copy" into proof of his devotion to the welfare of the commonalty. Last week the New York Daily Mirror found such an opportunity in the doings of Harry K. Thaw, famed murderer...
...Presidency in 1913, is an industrialist of a school that is rapidly passing into legend- a school whose favorite reading matter is the Bible, whose favorite exercise is obtained with an ax handle, who believe that work is the secret of their success, and who - nourished in the fervor of an epoch fat with expansion -have an impugnable faith in every man's ability to succeed. True to the convention of his school, he will devote the rest of his life to farming...
...York City. The seeming phenomena were popularly regarded as "a new revelation." In 1867, a learned U. S. judge estimated there were 10 million spiritualists in the U. S. (2/5 the population) ; more modest estimators said 3 million. Europeans, especially the English, embraced the movement with equal fervor. Late in life, Margaretta called a newspaper reporter, confessed that all the rappings she and Kate had caused to be heard, had been fraudulently perpetrated. Loose-jointed, she had created the sounds by loudly cracking, dislocating her knees and toes. Margaretta repeated this confession from many public stages. Bearing in mind that...
Noel Lord Byron laid down his pen and his life of a Greek fever in the embattled swamps of Missolonghi. The present bio-novel might be regarded as a belated contribution to the centenary, atoning for its tardiness by its fervor. But such is hardly the case. The author of The Chaste Diana (Lavinia Fenton, later the Duchess of Bolton, who took the part of Polly Peachum in the original production of the Beggars' Opera) and The Divine Lady (Lady Hamilton), is a person who discerns the folly of conceiving a colorful biography and embroidering it to the current...
...Significance. Author Belloc will be best remembered for two things: vigorous versatility and a magnificent English prose style. The Cruise of the Nona brings both into constant play. And of the two, the latter-as Author Belloc would agree if his humility matches his fervor- is the more important. Man being but an infirm creature, his convictions matter little, however brilliant and penetrating. But to couch convictions in beautiful words, to elaborate them faithfully beyond the perversive structures of Anglo-Saxon terseness, that is art, that is service...