Word: ardor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take pride in the fact that my father was a gay man, that he liked to give and receive parties. For many years after he was well past 70 we kept, with all the ardor of a religious rite, a cocktail hour...
Returning, they sought Herbert Cameron, mistook and beat another Negro. Their ardor abated, they placed Shipp's body by Smith's, watched them all night...
...used to be the custom for the CRIMSON to print one or two editorials a year suggesting that the time be changed. Gradually a defeatist attitude crept in; crusading ardor lessened; masterly logic was presented with a yawn. No authorities seemed to be worried because it was absurd to waken the whole Yard so that thirty men could attend chapel one hour and three-quarters later. Even the individual Seniors each year passed from active objection to torpid acceptance, and so each new class has had the bell wished upon it. This protest, too, offered more in sorrow than...
...greater part of this furor deserves a quick exit with no curtain calls. There is, however, a question of morals which is outside of all legality and upon which the most recent champions of the Scrubwomen stand. In Pome short moment when the crusading ardor is not all-powerful, "The Harvard Square Deal Association" might be reminded that any question of morality inevitably means a moral issue, not an absolute moral truth...
...brothers' and their chosen partners from such incursions, the fraternity has been forced to resort to the employment of a group of noble individuals whose usefulness, a few short years ago, seemed gone forever. These are 'bouncers' of that simple and primitive anti-alcoholic ardor that cleared the saloon of 'bums' when those gentlemen by raucousness or unseemly act impeded normal intellectual discussion or progress of any worthy cause...