Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the concert is expected to be perfectly knock-out, and I am enclosing two tickets with the ardent hope that you may be able to come over and watch Radcliffe do its stuff. (Howzat for diplomacy...
...shield of this particular vagabond the rolling Easter egg held sway. Painted in gaudy and inedible colors, the largest duck eggs were brought every Easter Monday by an Easter rabbit, and reckless little boys tried unsuccessfully to eat them. My pursuit of golden eggs in those days was as ardent as it is today...
Although not criticising the Soviet government, he pointed out how very much like the former regime the present one is. The first act of Lenin, who was the most ardent and idealistic of the pure communists, was a contradiction in face of the communistic principles he had been preaching. It was to give the land over to the peasants for individual, not communal, ownership...
...Judge. George W. English of Vienna, Ill., was a member of the Illinois legislature, an ardent prohibitionist, and known as a "labor" man. He was appointed to the federal bench by President Wilson in 1917. It is said that labor leaders have now joined in urging his impeachment, and that the Anti-Saloon League after opposing it for a time has given up its opposition...
...years of existence, it has held fourteen meetings with attendances ranging from a minimum of forty to a usual audience of about sixty and an extraordinary maximum of four hundred brought out by the football debate last fall. It has thrived best on college subjects. The biggest and most ardent audiences were attracted by the topics of football and military training...