Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christian Science Monitor, ardent dry, was informed that "the new line of attack will make Indiana really...
Then up jumped Charles Bertrand, ardent Nationalist. He roared: "Have we reached the point when we must choose between bankruptcy and M. Caillaux? Bankruptcy would be bet ter, for the reinstatement of M. Caillaux shows moral bankruptcy, which is infinitely the worse...
...ardent patriots who executed this grand stroke were particularly offended by Lampy's version of Washington crossing the Delaware as it appeared on the front cover. Yet so little did it impress them when they went about the work of confiscation that many inoffensive copies of the authentic Digest were carted to the police station. The other picture which the blue coats couldn't brook, they branded obscene. Of course it would be too much to expect honest and upright police commissioners to recognize the famous picture by Manet that has long hung in the Luxembourg. There may be some...
...Clementel had no alternative but to resign after his painful experience in the Senate. This he promptly did. Premier Herriot allegedly offered the vacant Ministry to M. Louis Loucheur, prominent and influential industrialist, but the latter refused it. The post was next offered to Senator Anatole de Monzie, an ardent Catholic and a prominent henchman of the Government in the recognition negotiations with Russia. The Finance Ministry was accepted by M. de Monzie on the understanding that the Government drop opposition to the Vatican Embassy. The Premier compromised on this question by stating that the Government would permit the representative...
...another day, a mass meeting of 12,000 students was held in the famous Bal Bullier (popular dancing hall). At the same time, six students were being tried for their share in the riot. Two were imprisoned for short terms in spite of the ardent support they received from their professors; the remaining four were fined...