Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Always an ardent supporter of the League of Nations, Professor Hudson has long urged American participation. He has followed all the League's activities closely, and a year ago predicted that Germany would probably be admitted to the League on a basis of equality...
Homer did his best for Achilles, Milton managed to make Satan a fairly presentable sort, and Raphael Sabbatini has established Cesar Borgia as an ardent habitue of Sunday schools; yet it remained for Mr. James Braden an erstwhile Yale fullback, to write the epic of a football player in such wise as to cast all these press-gentling jobs into well-merited obscurity. For a week his poetic prose has been the chief ornament of the otherwise drab sporting page of the New York World, chanting the life, works, and more significant remarks of "Red" Grange, who recently taught Pennsylvania...
...bursting with fabulous stench; here a rich asortment of cod heads raining down; there a herring, another, a shoal of flying herrings long since removed from the sea. Fogs of soot darkened the scene and a blizzard of meal. Scraping fish omelet from their eyes, the partisans closed in ardent wrestling bouts, the object being to keep your opponent from getting to the polling booth-if necessary, to cripple him. Four students were carried to the hospital...
...Smith worked at manual labor in addition to his studies, which were conducted at the Workers' Educational Academy. Always an ardent student, though somewhat handicapped by his afternoon work in the Lancaster mills, Mr. Smith applied himself to economics, and later taught several courses in that subject at the Academy...
...report of their sleep in the temple save pleasant dreams. The maidens smell fraud and burn the temple, whose flames signal a lusty and welcomed invasion from Manland. In the orgy of innocent rapine and surrender that follows, Phaon is pursued, somewhat to his distaste, by bands of ardent maenads, toward whom he being older has felt somewhat as a father...