Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thou didst endure, during the 20 years that preceded thy glorious maternity, by thy love for St. Joachim, thy glorious spouse, by thy love for Mary, thy immaculate child, and by the great joy thou didst feel at the moment of her birth, I beseech thee to grant my ardent request...
Died. Rt. Rev. William Frederic Faber, 74, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Montana; of drowning: in Paradise Creek, Glacier National Park, Mont. Search parties found his body two days after the Bishop, an ardent mountain-climber, had left for a walk...
...Hyde Park, speak out as he once did against the divorce of the late Mrs. 0. H. P. Belmont. The letter-writer to the Living Church who said what he thought needed to be said was Rt. Rev. Charles Fiske, 66, Bishop of Central New York, high churchman and ardent Democrat...
...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...
...Woodrow Wilson was a gallant lover, an ardent wooer. His anxiety to make a good impression was delightful. He seemed no more certain of success than any other man might and he exhausted all the tricks of this old trade. . . . The President had a private tele phone wire run from his bedroom to Mrs. Gait's house. He wrote her long letters. . . . The Library of the White House not supplying him with sufficient quotations, he called on the Library of Congress for poetic phrases. Flowers were ordered for her daily . . . purple orchids. These carried a special message . . . and when...