Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this practice. Before that he was President Wilson's First Assistant Postmaster General. He arrived in Washington as a Congressional secretary, demonstrated a rare talent with figures, helped draft the Underwood Tariff Act (1913). Earlier in South Carolina, he had served in the State Legislature where, although an ardent Dry and devout Methodist, he offered legislation creating the notorious South Carolina liquor dispensary system. Never since has he ceased to talk of the failure of that system...
...disturbed. In the countrysides they are notorious pothunters. Hunting U. S. Presidents or other public officials is far easier for deranged dagoes than pothunting afield. All Joe Zangara had to do was go to Miami's Bay Front Park and take a front seat, wait like an ardent if stupid-looking patriot until the President-elect should come within range...
...Ardent Teuton longings for a union with Italy (and "revenge" on France) caused German newsorgans of all sorts to chime in. "The French treat the Chancellor of Austria like a Negro chieftain!" stormed Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. "Nobody protested," cried the Catholic Reichspost, "when in 1932 Czechoslovakia sent to Jugoslavia through Austria enough arms alone to equip several army corps!" Amid frenzied pother the Austrian Cabinet of Chancellor Dollfus tottered, and excited Europe scarcely had time to be alarmed last week by sly Dr. Benes' new Great Power...
...rivalry with racketeers. They cap their misdemeanors by getting a whole town so sodden that when federal agents raid the brewery again, no evidence is left. What! No Beer? is certainly an incentive to lawlessness but it can be considered a triumph of comic invention only by the most ardent Keaton & Durante enthusiasts...
...into the arms of Japan. But ever since the fall of the empire the more portable part of his inherited treasure has been dribbling away, a Ming vase here, a jade bowl there. Even so, enough remains to dazzle the eyes and tire the feet of the most ardent tourist...