Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tonight's program promises heated argument well above the level of the monthly meeting of the Ladies' Missionary Society. Mr. Frederick J. Libby, possibly the most ardent, and assuredly the best known, pacifist of the United States will expound his views. He is relentless in his opposition to the preparedness propaganda of the Junkers who argue...
...Rome; M. Peretti della Rocca, Director of Political and Commercial Affairs at the Quai d'Orsay, to be Ambassador to Spain in room of M. de Fontenay; Comte Charles de Chambrun, Director of Press Service at the Quai d'Orsay, to be Minister at Athens; Deputy Jean Hennessy, ardent supporter of the League of Nations, to be Minister to Switzerland...
...inscription. "Bedamn, Ben", Archacologists of the University are puzzled regarding the exact meaning of "Bedamn", but as the picture portrays a somewhat portly gentleman, they deduce that "Ben" probably refers to Benjamin Franklin, and that the drawing was a tribute to him by one of his more ardent admirers...
Under the leadership of the ardent English and the French are different, and in a way complementary to each other. We are both free peoples and strong peoples, and ought to be united, but we have reached liberty by different routes; the French by principles and proclamations, the English by the gradual extension of the rights of the individual-which is, after a fashion, the way their people express in public life their love of comfort...
...erstwhile prominent Rabbi, he received opportunities of perfecting his literary education to a high degree, an achievement which has been invaluable to him ever since the day upon which he met Lenin in Germany and became an ardent revolutionary...