Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become known as Bolshevik* and Menshevik Parties, he joined the Mensheviki. "As soon as Menshevism began to assume the character of a tactical movement. . . I broke with the Mensheviki and remained outside both factions," he related. After Bloody Sunday, Jan. 9, 1905, he seems to have become an ardent Bolshevik and to have worked hard for the revolution. At the outbreak of the War he fled to Germany and was imprisoned by the Kaiser for writing a seditious pamphlet. He subsequently escaped to France, was expelled and fled to Spain, was again expelled and in January, 1917, he went...
General Edwards, by the way, ought to be delighted by the report that golf got him his high rank. What a whale of a game the general must play, to win promotion for that alone! And besides, judging from their ardent preoccupation with the sport several eminently worthy Presidents of the United States must have been elected chiefly on account of their golfing proficiency. General Dawes, though, is certainly up against it, with his energetic 24-hour day ideas to put across, and an assemblage of enthusiastic English golfers to get them across to. With these gentlemen running back...
...Handling. "I'm well aware our opponents have relegated international affairs to the obscurity of the State Department. . . . The fact that our foreign policy is in the hands of a Secretary of State and a Secretary of Commerce who have been ardent League of Nations advocates, would indicate that the League of Nations is not a closed incident...
...Treason 1" No. President Millerand wrote it himself some 30 years ago when he was just plain Comrade Millerand, an ardent Socialist...
Like The World, Cobb was a strong Democrat, but he was as fearless in criticizing Democratic leaders as he was ardent in his politics. Of late years his editorial page was recognized as one of the few vigorous examples of its kind still surviving in America...