Word: ardent
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...made the 90-mile trip on foot through country overrun with Boxers who were killing every Christian-Chinese or foreign-they could find. Captured many times, Yao always talked himself out. For his heroism Yao was offered a copper medal and later a reward of 1,000 taels. An ardent Christian, he thought that figure too high, gladly accepted the medal and 500 taels. From the income of this invested reward he still lives happily here on a few dollars a month, spends most of his time with his pet meadow lark, the rest in looking up the few friends...
...Banfield was badly hurt in the same crackup. Quiet, reserved, he still likes to build bridges on the side, sometimes does. Vice President Edward C. Sammons was named "Portland's First Citizen for 1935." Another high-powered Iron Fireman is General Sales Manager Clarence Theodore Burg, an ardent Rotarian who made all his salesmen wear flaming red neckties during Depression, urging them to preach "red tie optimism." In self-defense he has had to wear red ties himself ever since...
...younger men who had looked on from the outside. Hitherto the elders had kept silent while the youthful crusaders monopolized front pages with a revision of U. S. history which made those elders out to have been deplorable bunglers, duped by propaganda or impelled by greed. But when ardent young Senator Nye called the Wartime President of the U. S. a liar, the pent-up wrath of Woodrow Wilson's onetime associates burst forth in dancing fury...
...mechanical. Astrology is a perpetual progression. The Egyptians based their predictions upon experience and observation; why shouldn't we do more? Therefore, immediately upon my return to Paris in September I went to see Louis Barthou, with whom I was especially well acquainted, as M. Barthou was an ardent Hugophile and I had been presented to him by Gustave Simon, Hugo's testamentary executor. So our ideas on literature coincided. At any rate, I made known to him the result of my deductions adding, 'Between the loth and 15th of October, take special precautions...
India, Ceylon and Java-Sumatra export 85% of the world's tea. The U. S. buys 80,000,000 Ib. of tea a year, for which it pays $16,000,000. Only Great Britain consumes more. To make U. S. inhabitants even more ardent tea drinkers has long been the aim of the International Tea Market Expansion Board in general, and Mr. Gervas Huxley in particular. Mr. Huxley, the tweedy common denominator of all Englishmen, is Novelist Aldous Huxley's cousin and the director of the famed BUY BRITISH campaign. Late in 1934 Mr. Huxley, along with...