Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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King Mihai, is an ardent disciple of his mother's friend...
...Insatiable longing for earthly goods, unbridled predominance of civil interests, ardent search for popular favor and contempt of legitimate authority and the word of God have shaken faith itself, or very gravely threaten...
...Most Catholic Majesty is thought to agree with Dictator Primo de Rivera that none of the four Spanish Infantes (sons of the King) are physically fit to inherit the Throne. For their weaknesses and infirmities His Majesty is understood to blame not his own ardent self, but Her Majesty. He is said to have tested this theory by begetting, under the rose, certain quite robust offspring...
...until the April 9 issue of TIME, I was an ardent reader of and booster for the publication; but since reading that issue containing the wholly unnecessary account of the unfortunate tangle in which the two young sons of Ex-Governor Cox found themselves with the New York Police Department, I am "off" your magazine forever, unless appropriate amends are made...
...England's mellowest legends concerns a Countess of Salisbury who found her garter slipping, in the merry, ardent days of Edward III (1312-77). Down and down slipped the garter until it tumbled before the knowing eyes of a pack of smirking courtiers. But Edward III, with instant chivalry, stooped, retrieved the ribbon, tied it just below his own royal knee, and exclaimed to the Courtiers in immortal reproof: "Honi soit qui mal y pense!" (Evil be to him who evil thinks...