Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Col. James Elverson Jr., 59, president and publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer, early and ardent Hoover supporter, delegate to the last four Republican National Conventions; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. Publisher Elverson was a famed philatelist, yachtsman, clock-collector...
...Treaty. Preludes to the passing of the Kellogg Peace Treaty were played by two Senators in a genially cynical vein, by Senator Borah, treaty guardian, in an ardent, hortatory mood...
...Catholics who for the past hundred and thirty years have cherished the memory of their unhappy king. For many years after the passing of the Terrorist government the "martyrdom of the sainted Louis" was a stock expression which in one form or another appears in the works of all ardent Catholic writers. Today it appears that devoted Catholics in France still look upon him as a saint. Whether or not the Pope sees fit to stamp this judgment with the seal of official approval can do little to alter the saintly character Louis XVI has acquired in the hearts...
Today it is not enough that Italian fathers are responding potently to the Dictator's plea for better, faster begetting (TIME, Oct. 8 et ante). It is not even enough that Italy now leads all Europe in surplus of births over deaths.* Brushing such trifling achievements aside, young, ardent Editor Carli continued, last week, his slashing indictment of barren thin ladies, set a relentless quota...
...that day thronged Tarpon Springs, for in the course of years the Feast of the Blessing of the Waters has come to be one of the events of the Florida season. Unable to find seats in the small frame church of St. Nicholas, they clustered about, listening to the ardent chants of the Greek Orthodox liturgy that swelled inside, burst passionately on the sunny tranquillity of midmorning. Archbishop Alexander, head of the church in all the New World, had come from New York to preside at the ceremonies...