Word: ardent
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...Gold Shirts were jailed. At dusk, Tamaulipas' Governor Marte R. Gómez took the Latin method of relieving tension. Alone, he strolled around the plaza at Matamoros. "It's time for the evening promenade," he purred to the cautious citizens. Soon eligible senoritas and the ardent young men joined in their usual strolls and the crisis was over. "Mexico is in a state of complete tranquillity," assured Government officials...
Only a sprinkling of the 17,000 ardent track fans who last week filled Manhattan's Madison Square Garden and overflowed three deep around the rim were surprised when Kansan Glenn Cunningham, now running for the New York Curb Exchange and mightier than ever at 28, won the Wanamaker Mile for the fifth time in six years. But they were all quite unprepared for what they witnessed in the running of the 60-yd. dash...
...Mary Jones, a widow, and Daughters Gladys, Hazel, Dorothy and Evelyn-so said their friends-had long been ardent Catholics. Mother Joseph of the San Antonio convent confirmed that they had been admitted. At week's end they were still postulants. Miss Jerry McRae, maestra of the Rangerettes, declared she would welcome back Gladys, Hazel, Dorothy and Evelyn Jones if ever they changed their minds...
...Cabinet table his trusted friend, "straight shooting'' Dominions Secretary Malcolm MacDonald, son of the late James Ramsay MacDonald, and Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Regarded by Englishmen as a cold-as-a-fish lawyer, Sir John is known to Irishmen as the husband of an ardent Irishwoman and the man who defended Ireland in the terroristic days of the Black & Tan. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was pleased to find that de Valera no longer went off in rambling monologues or rattled the ghost of Cromwell as he did at previous Anglo-Irish meetings...
Protesting that womanhood had been slandered, ardent feminisia at the Harvard Employees' Union last night launched violent opposition to the CRIMSON'S use of the latter as a synonym for maids...