Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report has yet to be approved by Secretary of the Navy Wilbur before it becomes final. Some ardent supporters of Colonel Mitchell called it a "whitewashing." Mrs. Lansdowne, widow of the commander of the Shenandoah, read the findings of the Court and then is alleged to have told a reporter...
...fray went to the local Hospital for Crippled Children, and the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine were responsible for staging what proved to be a combined football game and babbitts' revel. To drum up publicity, one Hugh K. McKevitt, Illustrious Potentate, ardent Mystic Shriner, tossed a football from the 23rd floor of the San Francisco Telephone Co. Building. Then he tossed another- and another-and another. Meanwhile Brick Muller, famed Californian right end of the "All-Westerns," scampered about 320 feet below and finally caught Potentate McKevitt's fourth downward pass. Baseball fans...
...rises of itself. The childishness of men which thrills to "let's begin all over again", reacts to even so earthly a thing as American politics. Sometimes, too, pre-session rumors rouse the public to believe that something more than politics is to reign that some crusade has ardent champions. December brings not only Yuletide cheer, but also a holiday spirit toward politics; and a sense of possibilities...
...fact that the issues that have led to war between nations are rarely purely legal in character. They are political and economic, of a type which law cannot yet reach, and it is precisely these questions over which the court has no jurisdiction. Professor Hudson, one of the most ardent advocates of the League and the court, admits in his recent book that "It is chiefly with reference to non-juridical questions that nations are likely to fight. For the most part, the kind of case that comes before the courts, the kind of case that has come before...
...only minimize or emphasize news to fit your disdain, but distort it to give rise to the spectacular. These are the attributes of yellow papers, and I, who for months have been an ardent admirer of your publication, feel disappointed...