Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kansas, William Allen White. He was born at Emporia. He was educated at the University of Kansas, he married a Kansas City woman and since 1895 he has been proprietor and editor of the Emporia Daily and Weekly Gazette. He was a member of the Progressive National Committee, an ardent follower of Roosevelt, high in his official councils. As did Roosevelt, he loves dogs and animals. As did Roosevelt, he understands the mind and manners, the whimsies and dialects of America...
Alfred E. Smith. The Governor of New York is an ardent Wet as well as a Roman Catholic. Therefore he has poor prospects. Nevertheless he may be used as a stalking horse by the three anti-McAdoo bosses, Brennan of Illinois, Taggart of Indiana, Murphy of New York, who recently sojourned together at French Lick Springs. There was talk of entering him in the Illinois primaries to prevent a McAdoo victory there...
...Seek" is to burlesque the prevailing type of mystery play. The action of the play takes place at "Aunt Margaret's Manor House in Northern Vermont,--one quart's pop from the Canadian border." The complications of the play are due to the combined efforts of Peggy's ardent admirers and various mysterious personages such as bootleggers, spirits, and members of the Ku Klux Klan...
...Hiram Johnson followed. Then Mr. McCormick came to the attack a second time. It is significant that Mr. McCormick's remarks followed his attendance at a breakfast given by Albert D. Lasker, former Chairman of the Shipping Board, and (before the nomination of Warren G. Harding in 1920), an ardent supporter of Hiram Johnson for the Presidency...
...tipped tail. Only a Fabre could be intimate with him. He digs his own home in the sand under rocks. He feels his way with his pincers, because, despite his eight staring eyes, he cannot see straight ahead. His courtship is an epic, ending in the slaughter of the ardent male by his cannibal mate. Fabre in his last years, though always living in poverty, received the acclaim of Science and of la patrie. He was the friend of many great men-John Stuart Mill, Hugo, Pasteur, Frédéric Mistral, Rostand, Maeterlinck (of whose The Life...