Word: ardent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...abortive Liberty League movement within the walls of Harvard comes as a surprise to the great mass of the proletariat also lodged, for various reasons, in these same hallowed precincts. Especially does this failure take on rather a poignant note when it is remembered that fully 350 ardent undergraduates have expressed their zeal by registering with the central bureau in Washington, but have been stopped on the threshhold of a shining success by the lack of leadership. No one has stepped forward to take on his shoulders the flaming mantle of the great Jouet Shouse. In this crying wilderness...
Meanwhile the wheel horses of British politics took to the public platform to prepare British opinion for the coming shift in foreign policy. From the beginning, one of the most ardent believers in clamping Sanctions on Italy's ambitions was Sir Austen Chamberlain. Last week this gaunt Elder Statesman was on his feet crying...
...cartridge belt, boots, an astrakhan hat. In the ring, his customary procedure is to stroke his beard pensively, glower at spectators. His favorite hold is the Russian Bear Hug, nothing more than an earnest attempt to squeeze the living daylights out of his opponent. Last week Wrestler Kalmikoff, an ardent Communist, took his $25,000 earnings, shaved his beard, sailed back to Russia...
...renting an apartment, the address of which he is constantly forgetting.- "My platform," he announced in fastidious Bostonese, "will be the Horse & Buggy, or Save the Constitution." In the Republican split of 1912 Boies Penrose temporarily lost his State leadership to the Bull Moose faction, which included an ardent Young Roosevelt worshipper named Gifford Pinchot. While one set of Philadelphia voters was lifting the name of Penrose up last week, another group was setting the name of Pinchot down. In a district inhabited largely by factory workers whose cause she has championed many a time on the picket line...
...keynoter and temporary chairman of a national political convention is, as most voters know, the man who starts the show with a long, ardent harangue which is forgotten by the time the first nominating ballot is taken. Nonetheless the Press made a great stir last week when, as a gesture to the West and liberals, the potent Committee on Arrangements of the Republican National Committee picked Oregon's mildly progressive Senator Frederick Steiwer to sound the Party keynote at Cleveland next June. Republican newspapers tried to make the gesture seem important. Democratic sheets gleefully compared the probable content...