Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maryland that ardent letter-writer, Senator Ovington E. Weller, Republican, was defeated by Representative Millard E. Tydings, Democrat, who rode to victory on the wave of Wet-and-popular Governor Ritchie. Mr. Weller's campaign philosophy was that every voter would like to have a cheery letter from a U. S. Senator. He congratulated mothers on the birth of babies; he flattered fathers who had become outstanding figures in their communities. Even Governor Ritchie's mother and his private secretary, and Senator-elect Tydings had their backs slapped by Senator Weller's "personal" letters. These must have...
Last March, its directors, ardent TIME readers, recognizing the superiority of your style of news writing, published a new Clarion modeled after TIME the weekly newsmagazine. Students delighted in the manner in which even the most remote news was transformed to a crisp, subtle article...
...week ran -it, but no Morris Gest, or other enterprising producer, no Otto Kahn or other Maecenas, not even Patron Idea-man Edward W. Bok came forward to help Dr. Stokowski. People of the maddeningly practical turn of mind suggested that the ardent artist persuade his audiences to close the"ir eyes...
...could go to a football game and watch twenty-two men batter each other into insensibility, and have done with it, I should be the most ardent fan in the world...
...portent of the outcome. His adherents in New York are slipping over toward the wet side of the deek. The Prohibition party, as an institution, has already sunk, below the voting strength legally, necessary to maintain itself a political entity. Already, the Democratic party has hinted at an ardent wet, Governor Ritohic of Maryland, as its 1928 candidate for President. And on their side the Republican drys of New York show signs of fatigue...