Word: ardent
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...married to each other in the fall of the year 1894 at Lafayette where the respondent was a lowly cotton grower and where your complainant first elevated him to the rank of a public officer. . . . The respondent was a model husband and his courtship at Lafayette was swift and ardent. . . . "Beginning in the spring of 1928 this respondent began to stay out late at night and was often seen in the company of disreputable characters known as 'Republicans'; he came home in bad moods and would banefully mutter, 'Raskobite' at your complainant and her friends...
...Mass. It is doubtful if Bach, an ardent Lutheran, ever intended his monumental Mass to be given in the Catholic Church. Nor was it practical because of its great length for use in the Lutheran service (it takes nearly three hours to perform). It was conceived probably with little thought for its future, as an expression of Bach's own deep, personal faith, inspired by the simple piety that led him to inscribe even the little clavier pieces composed for his children with the words In Nomine Jesu. Yet the text adheres to the form of the Ordinary...
...have been misunderstood, your unprejudiced account was received as an added source of appreciation. May I congratulate the author of the mentioned article on having written the most accurate and impartial account of the Mormons which I have read in any of the national magazines. This gratitude-from an ardent reader of TIME, and a Mormon...
...uninvited to dances at various chapter houses. This is done so extensively as to tax the capacity of the house, and so make dancing even more like the preliminaries of wrestling than either fashion or comfort dictates. It also happens that when those who desire to enter unbidden are ardent males without escort they at times push in window sashes, glass and all, or break outer doors from their imitation handwrought hinges...
Last week Kansas Attorney General William Amos Smith hesitated about taking action against Brinkley sought by medical men, which might result in the loss of his license.* In one day Attorney General Smith received nearly 300 communications from ardent supporters of the Radio Clinic begging him to desist. Druggists over the state, waxing fat on the proceeds from the prescriptions, also sided with Brinkley...