Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Mrs. Bessie Rayner Belloc, 95, mother of Hilaire Belloc, famed British writer; in Slindon, Essex, England. An ardent suffragist, she, together with Harriet Martineau and Florence Nightingale, signed the first petition asking for suffrage for women ever presented to Parliament...
...Orchestra in Brattle Hall was bad, there is no reason on earth why Mr. Thomson should not have said so, and the reception of the Orchestra in Springfield is quite beside the point. The Pierian may have played badly in Brattle Hall (and I think that even its most ardent supporters will admit that there were a few blemishes in this concert) and still have acquitted itself very creditably in Springfield four days later. I grant that Mr. Thomson was harsh in using such phrases as "tender and devoted skill" concerning a soloist who deserved a great deal of praise...
...Editor of The Woodville Republican, 100 years of age, and Mississippi's oldest newspaper, and, by the way, is, and has ever been an ardent supporter of the Democratic Party, I want to congratulate the management of TIME upon the excellence it has attained and the high standard it maintains. . . . I read it with interest each week and, as my subscribers often write me, "I look forward to its arrival with anticipated pleasure...
...expedient-for it was no more than that-was not the beginning of the end but seemingly the end of the beginning. Ireland is still a most distressful country. Arrived in the U. S. for a lecture tour James Stephens, famed Irish poet and author.* He was once an ardent Sinn Feiner but, in the advent of the Free State, he supported the act which conferred upon his native land "dominion status" in the British Commonwealth of Nations. Now, like many other Free State enthusiasts, his ardor has cooled; lie believes that the Irish question has not yet been answered...
...Yale News in the editorial reprinted below is one which will meet with hearty sympathy at Harvard. It clearly recognizes that freedom and the ideal of a liberal education are the goals toward which the students of the Eastern universities must strive. It is far from radical; ardent reformers will criticize it for that reason. It does, however, offer a sound liberal program whose merit lies in the fact that it can--and ought--to be carried...