Word: ardent
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...When brought into the limelight unavoidably, this little patient, with unusual personal charm, captivated the public with a sympathy and solicitude that gave the publicity a momentum which has not found its limit. . . . The press correspondents were numerous, ardent and eager. They manifested some evidence of becoming rapacious. They claimed title to news and would not be unslaked...
...when Mrs. Frederick M. Alger agreed to head the festival committee. The Alger name is big in Detroit. Old Michiganders remember the "General," rich from lumber and iron, who served President McKinley as Secretary of War. The General's Son Frederick was not too social to be an ardent American Legionary up to the time of his death two winters ago. Young Fred Alger Jr. took to horses and polo, owns Azucar, the gelding that won the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap in California this winter (TIME, March...
...unanimity of the Supreme Court, leaves no doubt as to the legality of the decision. That the N.R.A. was unconstitutional even its most ardent proponents have always believed at the bottom of their hearts. This smashing fall of the guillotine on the head of the bedraggled eagle is the ghost the New Dealers have been seeing in the window from almost the very beginning. One does not have to be an authority on constitutional law to see the complete invalidity of the N.R.A. Not only did Congress delegate legislative powers to the President, but what is more important, it endeavored...
Liberia's Whigs, True or Unit, are all archconservatives, ardent nationalists and enemies of European cooperation. Election over, Liberian authorities had a chance to turn their attention to an idea which had recently popped from the head of Premier Hertzog of South Africa. Said Chairman Thomas Jesse Jones of the Advisory Committee on Education in Liberia...
...head of a long procession of ecclesiastics, and who later joined with other prelates in symbolically presenting the Pope bread, wine, water and cages of birds, the Holy Father's words were weighty with command. "We desire," said Pius XI to his 40,000 listeners, "that in your ardent prayers . . . you ask of the Lord that which is so dear to our heart, namely, that England, in the words of St. Paul, 'meditating the happy consummation that crowned the lives' of these two martyrs, may 'follow them in their faith' and return to the Father...