Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. The Coolidge Administration has taken a definitely "bone-dry" stand on Prohibition. If, there is to be any Wet parade, Democrats must organize it, the most available drummer-boy being Senator James A. Reed of Missouri. Governors Smith of New York and Ritchie of Maryland are ardent foes of the Anti-Saloon League dogma, but are not so ready to exorcise it with tom-toms...
...probability is, however, that the Vagabond, having always been an ardent admirer of Poe, will settle the 10 o'clock problem by going to Harvard 2, where Professor Murdock is going to lecture on that meteoric author...
...this world are as nothing compared to the riches that will reward the faithful in the world that is to come; few professing Christians are willing to give up what they have in this world and gamble on what they will receive in the next. But last week one ardent Roman Catholic, Lu Chenghsiang, once Premier, four times...
...best breakfast, large soft hands, a Narcissus-like grace of bearing . . . brilliantly witty. . . . This remarkable, many-sided man ... is the seductive picture of an aristocratic Cagliostro, formed to bewitch the young Prince." Soon Eulenburg could write in his diary: "The Prince's affection for me was an ardent one . . . my musical performances drove him into almost feverish, raptures . . . always sitting beside me and turning the pages . . . and he loved to greet me with turns and phrases from my verses...
...course at all are to be trusted most of all. The most objectionable thing about the tutoring schools is that they destroy confidence in a man's ability to prepare for an examination by himself; it is doubtful, as some authorities may think, that they enable even their most ardent devotees to go through Harvard without doing a sizable amount of work...