Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writes to his friend Pfenniger: 'And so the word of man is the word of God to me . . . . and with ardent soul I embrace my brothers, Moses, the prophets, the evangelists, the apostles, Spinoza and Machiavelli. And to each one I may say: dear friend, you are like myself...
...advantage to accept. But nationalists continued to howl that Germany had been "insulted by being commanded* to appear" and that Minister Stresemann must not go. Finally President von Hindenburg asserted himself at a Cabinet session last week and squelched Dr. Schiele, Minister of the Interior, ardent obstructionist leader...
...army of 10,000 men to fight with the Allies during the World War, and declined $500,000 due him as payment for their services. Grateful, Britannia showered the aged potentate of nearly three score and ten with decorations. Touched and admiring, British citizens hailed him as an ardent cricketer, who, when he could no longer bowl, field or run, continued to bat and had someone...
...high spots of the play include: An opening scene in which Senator Cassius Clayborn and his bootlegger are disclosed drinking gin behind the locked door of his office. The Senator is up for reelection. The Reverend Dr. Kew-back, an ardent dry, comes to his office and threatens to ruin his chances by publishing a story about a trip which his daughter made to Atlantic City with her fiance, an attache of the British Legation, unless the Senator will vote a large appropriation for Prohibition enforcement. They also argue over Prohibition. The Senator thrusts the Prohibition Bible (in which "raisin...
...ardent cherub who swore and flung his clubs...