Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only in Ireland could there be a king's representative like Donal Buckley. An ardent Republican and oldtime Sinn Fciner, he was nominated for the governor generalship by his good friend Eamon de Valera in the sneaking hope that Britain would make an issue of the matter by objecting. Britain did not. Once the proprietor of a grocery store, bicycle shop and inn, Donal Buckley was interned in Britain during the War after fighting bravely in the defense of the Postoffice during Dublin's Easter rebellion in 1916. He speaks nothing but Gaelic whenever possible, refuses to live...
...dominated by the flesh-pots, the quantity of animal products far exceeding the two ounces recommended by the Hygiene department. The vegetable dishes of flabby beets and pulpy cauliflower which flank the meat offering leer in such unsightly fashion at the diner as to discourage even the most ardent devotee of his vitamines and minerals from partaking freely. In short, the only barrier to deficiency disease is the ubiquitous hearts of lettuce, no doubt highly wholesome but at best unfit for daily human consumption...
Subsistence homesteads, PWA's house & garden projects to keep the starving alive in semi-rural communities, have no more ardent supporter than Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. One of her favorites is for jobless miners at Reedsville, W. Va. Part of the Reedsville project is erection of a factory to make furniture and post-office equipment. Secretary Ickes enthusiastically allocated $525,000 of PWA funds to build and equip a factory to employ 125 men. To provide the factory with work, a provision was popped into the regular Post Office Appropriation bill to operate the factory and take over...
...Best known bearded Scot: Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, author of travel books, persistent kilt wearer, onetime M. P. (1886-92), ardent Scotch nationalist...
...true as Swedes believe that their scrawny old King Gustaf talked the roughest sort of turkey to Chancellor Adolf Hitler on his last visit to Berlin, then His Majesty has few more ardent admirers than the U. S. Ambassador to Germany, outwardly mild but inwardly rampant William Edward Dodd, onetime professor of history at the University of Chicago...