Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treasury Secretary and the President-Elect had reached an "accord." In the second place Mr. Hoover had been widely credited with a desire to appoint Col. William J. Donovan, present Assistant Attorney General, to the Attorney General's Cabinet position. Mr. Donovan is a Catholic, is also no ardent prohibitionist, consequently Klan and other anti-Catholic influences are against him as are also prohibitionists who are vitally interested in the supposition that Mr. Hoover may shift prohibition enforcement from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice. Thus, Mr. Donovan, desirable, is perhaps not available. Other Cabinet appointments remain...
...Most ardent in the fight for honesty was Michigan's McLeod who foresaw that if Congress continued to flaunt the Constitution, it would be necessary to create a new party or "Constitutional Bloc" which would "prevent the waning of the Constitution through improper teaching or lack of teaching," and "purge the supreme law of matter properly only the subject for legislation...
...inspired by the "legit" play, The Command to Love. A little wittier than most dramas of a prince wavering between a throne and an actress, Dream of Love leans heavily on the sex appeal of Actress Crawford, called "Venus of Hollywood." After each new film Miss Crawford receives ardent letters from thousands of high-school and college boys. She sends them in return, when requested, an autographed bosom and a printed slip stating that she was born in San Antonio, Tex., and educated at a girl's finishing school in Kansas City; that she ran away to Chicago...
...Robe. It is not customary, when the Shuberts produce a good operetta, for the public to howl so loudly with joy as when "Ziggy," the maestro and artist, produces a mediocre one. Thus The Three Musketeers, last spring, an elaborate musicale, provoked more ardent cheers than The Red Robe, last week, which was just as good...
...property was of course confiscated during the revolution, is now a naturalized U. S. citizen, and can safely draw the line at being buried by a Bolshevik priest. She also draws the line at the League of Nations ("humbug," "rubbish") but not so safely, because her daughter is an ardent employe of the secretariat. The Princess lives in Manhattan, works for an importer, writes occasional amusing intensities for the press...