Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Second School represented at the Conference desires to burst through the bureaucratic, stereotyped agenda. An ardent "Second Schooler'' is President Isidore Ayora of Ecuador. His words: "It is necessary to step from verbal and declamatory Pan-Americanism to ... . concrete Pan-Americanism ... to the effective and total recognition of identical rights for all American states . . . repelling the possibility that there may exist or could exist, governments or peoples that domineer...
...Valdemaras of Lithuania (less picturesque and well known than Marshal Pulsudski) was the first prime minister of his country (1918), and has represented Lithuania at almost every important international conference since. A scholar, a brilliant speaker commanding ten languages, he bases his political strength squarely on a platform of ardent nationalism. That he has been of many nationalities, in the legal sense, is explained by the fact that the district in which he was born has been, during his lifetime, once Russian, once German, several times Lithuanian and is now Polish. By general repute Premier Valdemaras is deemed relatively normal...
...York. Ardent playgoers well remember a last season drama named Chicago. Not so memorable is New York. In it a lonely shop girl goes grievously wrong. The manner of her going brought back to some more ancient listeners the flowery days of Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model,-days when a properly seething villain chewed up at least one set of scenery every evening...
GEORG TCHITCHERIN (cheat-cher-'een), 55, is Commissioner for Foreign Affairs. Onetime aristocrat and diplomat, he threw up his appointment in Berlin in 1905, associated himself with the Socialist movement, was banished from Germany in 1908, since when he has remained an ardent Bolshevist. During the War he was imprisoned in England whence he was expelled in 1917. returning to Russia in January, 1918. As Foreign Commissioner he has been noted for his suave touch and clever diplomacy in the conduct of the foreign affairs...
...silent one. The theory, if not the practice, of the idea that travel in the street is the right of the pedestrian and the privilege of the motorist has often been iterated. In an entire nation of increasingly nimble broken field runners there will be found few more ardent supporters of this civic principle than those members of Harvard College who are daily obliged to cross Harvard Square...