Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family and I are ardent listeners of your weekly broadcast. ... As a testimonial you may use the following true fact...
Democrat Cermak had the firm if not ardent support of such famed Chicagoans as William Ruggles Dawes, Silas Hardy Strawn, Julius Rosenwald and Frank Jo seph Loesch. He kept his campaign on a nice, colorless plane. He harped on police reform, aid to the jobless, reduced taxes. But voters took his promises at a discount because his own record was that of a routine politician who had risen to the top of his party. When Thompson assailed him as "that pushcart peddler," he promptly organized a parade of pushcart peddlers who vowed to vote for him. Plump and precise, bespectacled...
...While an ardent defender of the old American game, I will admit that I still bear a slight scar on my face from finger nails used under water and unseen by the referee, and I also admit to having sinus trouble ten years after the old game fell into disrepute...
Jesse Isidor Straus, ardent Brown Derby supporter in 1928 and president of R. H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan department store) asked the 2,000-odd delegates and alternates to the Democratic National Convention at Houston whom they would prefer for the presidency next year. He received 844 definite replies. Last week he made public the results. The first five of 20 candidates...
President Bacigalupi's election statement contained a flourish of humility: "My decision to accept is based entirely upon an abiding attachment to our splendid institutions and organizations, conceived and founded by A. P. Giannini, and upon an ardent desire to contribute my best endeavors toward the continued success of our undertakings. . . . I have no delusions regarding my ability to contribute anything of an extraordinary nature...