Word: ardor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Giddily, the Memorial Hall Clock let the wind caress her early yesterday morning in a manner reminiscent of her poignant Civil War days. But the ardor of her lusty suitor sent blood to one of her four faces so rapidly that it lost all sense of time...
...last week when he closed his Philharmonic engagement. Previously he had conducted unfamiliar music which left his listeners doubtful. But with the Sibelius Fifth Symphony he proved himself worthy of the master Finn's approval. His gestures were no longer cramped and self-consciously sub- dued. In his ardor he ripped open his coat sleeve but no one thought of snickering. Sibelius had been presented in all his strength and clarity. Even the orchestramen who set their standards by Arturo Toscanini clapped on their instruments for young Werner Janssen...
...Dealers in Washington did not look on Mayor Kelly & friends with much Democratic warmth and ardor. Their recommendations for Federal patronage were pigeonholed and other Democrats, not of their clique, got coveted appointments. None of this was a cheering prelude to the fact that Chicago must elect a new Mayor next spring. But last fortnight the New Deal swept the nation. Its results were glorious for Mr. Kelly. All his friends up for office in local elections won handily...
Dampening the ardor of a large group of philanthropic workers, President Roosevelt chopped down their sweeping social security program to one subject for early enactment, unemployment insurance. Refusing to allow the national government to assume the entire burden of such a plan, he insisted that this "part of social insurance should be a cooperative federal-state undertaking...
...shaky cabinet hastened "Gastounet," carrying with him all the sympathy and affection of the French people. Once again he used that affection to club politicians out of purely partisan stands. Calmly he ruled: "Tardieu was replying to calumnies of which he had been made the object. The vehement ardor with which he sought to defend himself led him to exceed the limits within which, in my opinion, he should have remained. . . . But I never thought ... he was acting with the premeditated purpose of putting in danger my truce and the appeasement Ministry in which Herriot and he had stood...