Word: ardent
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...plunged head first into their platters. Decks tilted crazily while frightened Germans ran screaming from rail to rail. In a few minutes the Dresden's first S. O. S. was picked up by the coastal steamers King Harald and Crown Princess Martha, and the French navy despatch boat Ardent. The giant British battleship Rodney, visiting Stavanger, also heard the call but was told that no further assistance was necessary...
Pent-up Africa is uncaged this week at Loew's Orpheum when Cab and the boys set their audiences rocking to the tortured strains of Minnie the Moacher and Zazz Zoo Zazz. Any ardent devotee will be completely satisfied by the Calloway contortions and incoherent mouthings, while favorable attention will be directed toward Ada Ward and her condition of Without That Certain Thing...
...Republican national convention, of which he had been designated keynoter. But at Kansas City he subsequently made his peace with Hoover. When the Muscle Shoals lobbying scandal compelled the G. O. P. to oust Claudius H. Huston as national chairman in 1930, Senator Fess took the job. His ardent Dry leanings proved a party liability in the 1930 Congressional elections. He resigned in 1932. In the Senate he has voted for: the Bonus (1924), tax reduction (1929), Hawley-Smoot tariff (1930), moratorium on War debts (1931), RFC (1931), Economy Act (1933), overriding the Roosevelt veto on veterans' compensation...
...Swooping down on the dingy tin-roofed villages of Vistica and Puerto Grande last week, Argentine police arrested 27 cattle thieves and discovered an ardent admirer of NRA. Cattle Thief Francisco Atenor Gomez, painfully picking his way through Buenos Aires newspapers, had evolved a plan to up the price of stolen cattle by setting up a rustler's code for six other bands of cattle thieves, pooling stolen cattle in secret corrals until prices rose. At the police station he was only too glad to explain...
...many years we have maintained that something should be done to protect the poor innocent Freshman from the clutches of solicitors for subscriptions, laundry, and pressing contracts. A great deal of suffering has been caused by this ardent desire for business...