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Word: ardent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oakmont and blazed through his matches to the very final. Two former champions had sickened at that fell onslaught, tall Bob Gardner of Chicago and seasoned Walter Fownes of the home club, and only with difficulty did ponderous Dave Herron at last fix a damper on the ardent cherub, who swore and flung his clubs when a crashing drive soared astray or a tricky pitch was topped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Oakmont | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

...better to obey God than man, and I am fully persuaded this prompting is of God. Call me fanatic or what you may. Soon after Will K. Reeme of Kansas City, Mo., insurance man, ardent Prohibitionist, was arrested, charged with writing an "indecent letter."* He admitted his authorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Miscellaneous Mentions: Aug. 24, 1925 | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

Accounts disagreed widely as to the reason of the nuptial cleavage. Some said that Mme. Kemal, ardent feminist, mixed in matters that did not concern her and was apt to treat her spouse with high-handed masterfulness. Other accounts said that the wife had found the husband unbearable, had decided to live with him no longer, had herself sought the divorce. Official statements discreetly said nothing. All that was definitely known was that about three weeks ago Mme. Kemal left Angora precipitately. Ministers of the Government were present to bid her farewell, but the President was conspicuously absent. Latife Hanoum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Divorced | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

...ardent suffrage worker, a good friend of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Mrs. Stanton used to call her "Heathen Helen" because of her radical views...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: A Will | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

Died. John Temple Graves, 68, famed journalist, "Silver-Tongued Orator from Dixie," onetime (1907-19) editorial and feature writer for the Hearst newspapers, old-school Democrat, ardent protagonist of the South's causes; in Washington, D. C, of a complication of diseases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 17, 1925 | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

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