Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are no two more ardent Democrats than the Senators from Virginia. But Carter Glass's outspokenness against most New Deal policies is hardly newsworthy any more. Harry Flood Byrd* on the other hand has mostly followed the New Deal's desires. Day after Senator Wagner left the reservation, Senator Byrd followed him, moved also by convictions but of a different kind. Said he: "The course we are pursuing-borrowing money for public expenditures and increasing our enormous deficit each year-will chill the confidence of businessmen in the future prospects of reasonable profits. . . . Business is ready...
Washington, D. C. Buying great quantities of real estate, she induced the Austrian, Spanish, Cuban, Polish, French and Lithuanian embassies to move there, built a $300.000 palace which she attempted time after time to have made the official home of the Vice Presidents of the U. S. Vegetarian, ardent prohibitionist (she poured her husband's valuable cellar into the gutter immediately after his death) and anti- tobacconist, she caused one great sensation in 1931 when she publicly announced that her granddaughter, Mrs. Beatrice ("Trixie") Van Rensselaer Henderson Wholean was a foundling, secretly adopted to inherit a $600,000 trust...
...ardent music lover, Blacksmith Lynch was also hard at work on another sword to present to Tenor Lauritz Melchior for his 100th performance as Siegfried this week...
...premiere of the Violin Concerto was also coolly received. It was not a display piece and Brahms, who conducted, supplied a diversion by going on stage with his suspenders unfastened. All his life Brahms suffered from the critics who tried to classify him and failed. He was an ardent romanticist, yet he adhered unfashionably to established musical forms. The world in his time was swayed by the amazing music-dreams of revolutionary Richard Wagner. Brahms never wrote for the stage, never for theatric effect...
...Wealth plan or the Townsend plan. No amount of explaining that, for instance, the economic system cannot possibly raise such tremendous annual sums as Townsend offers the old duffers, will destroy for the average man the illusion that bread is being taken out of his mouth. He remains an ardent advocate of the plan in the expectation that he will have some day $200 a month himself...