Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fifth of a second slower than the world's record,--3 minutes 22 4-5 seconds. Yale won the race, as had been expected, with its veteran team of Norton, Geilfuss, Gage, and Chapman; but in pushing them so hard, the University quartet exceeded the hopes of its most ardent supporters...
...author of The Boudoir Mirrors of Washington (TIME, Dec. 31) has written: "Few women in official life have the versatility or dynamic personality of Mrs. McCormick. She is a clever politician, an ardent suffragist, a social leader, an expert horsewoman, an effective writer, and a successful farmer. . . . as a daughter of Mark Hanna, so long autocrat of the G. O. P., she learned the political game early. She played a prominent part in the fascinating life of the 'Little White House.' . . . Not even during its prominence as a political stronghold throughout the Civil War did this celebrated...
...slogans, are not entirely out of date, but in recent years they have tended to ward modest, conservative phrases such as "Back to normalcy". Nothing so sweeping and red-blooded as "Beer, Bonus or Bust" has assailed American ears since "Fifty-four-forty or fight,"--Out possibly, this ardent, whole-hearted sort of thing is just what America needs in the political game...
...attended cotemporaneously with Woodrow Wilson, whom he knew well. They were fellow members of the Glee Club. Later he became a Professor of History at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Principal of Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, President of Adelphi College. Before we entered the War he was a pacifist, later an ardent supporter of President Wilson's program. He is Secretary of the World Court League, of the League of Nations Union, and the New York Peace Society, has held office in other similar organizations...
Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania and ardent Dry: "The New York Herald commenced publication of a series of letters descriptive of life in Washington during the Roosevelt Administration and written by the late Major Archie Butt, military aid to the President. Said one letter: 'It was a pleasant afternoon. He [President Roosevelt] was in his best humor, and during the afternoon Longworth and his wife, Mr. Pinchot, the forester, and some others came in. The President had already ordered four mint juleps, but before they were served they had got up to eight. As each guest would arrive...