Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Feb. 23, you say: "Devout Catholics fell to their knees at the radioed sound of the Pontiff's revered voice." I beg leave to differ. In the first place, I have known all sorts of Catholics: good, bad, ardent, and indifferent; American Catholics and Catholics of varied nationalities. Naturally, they all respect the Pope, but there is not a one of them, even the most pious, that would even dream of falling on their knees at the sound of the Pontiff's voice. I believe that this is true of the whole country. From what I have...
...Author. Henrietta Leslie shows herself no jingo, displays a lively and indignant sympathy for her heroine. An ardent internationalist, active in reconstruction work, she was recently decorated by the King of Bulgaria. She has written many a novel, two plays, a pageant. Thoughtful John Galsworthy has written an introduction to Mrs. Fischer's War. Says he: "It makes you think. Yes, it makes you think...
...Dimnet, and Bruce Bairnsfather, have so far been exceptionally prominent. George W. Russell, 'AE', who spoke here some years ago, will doubtless provide one of the more amusing evenings of the year. One who is interested in such varied fields as painting, poetry, sociology, and agriculture, besides being an ardent patriot of the Free State, is naturally an interesting speaker. Russell's charming Irish wit attracts not only those who seek to be amused but also those intellectuals who appreciate "AE" as the man who, along with Yeats, was a leader of the Irish Renaissance. His flowing beard and imposing...
...special assistant to the U. S. Attorney General (1928-30) he showed himself a scholarly lawyer; 4) though he was the Republican nominee when the Fergusons won the governorship of Texas in 1924, he was recommended to the White House by no less an ardent Democrat than Texas Senator Tom Connally. Porto Ricans proclaimed the good fortune by Filipinos to get such a Vice Governor as Dr. Butte. Impressed, Politicos Quezon and Osmena in Manila announced that they were quite satisfied. President Hoover felt that he might well congratulate himself. ¶ "We need to be more humble," President Hoover...
...Ardent followers of football well have a chance to watch the first interhouse football game in history when the teams of Lowell and Dunster Houses battle on the class field at Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3.15 o'clock...