Word: ardor
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Political perversity in extreme form is evident in Representative Reardon's resolution to investigate Harvard's proposed contract to sell steam to the Rindge School. But plots return to plague the inventors, and the Representative's extraordinary ardor for preventing Harvard's undreamed aspirations to become a power trust will effect his own reputation rather than the University...
...Alexandria, La. last week a Mrs. Carolyn Willis, 64, wealthy, took Louis Paschall of Port Tampa City, Fla. as her eleventh husband. Three of Mrs. Paschall's husbands died; seven she divorced. She rid herself of her last on the ground that he was lazy, lacked ardor on their honeymoon...
...Valencia, other students expressed similar Republican ardor by smashing windows, throwing desks, chairs, bookcases out of the university windows, then swarming through the streets throwing stones, firing shots at the police. Civil guards, flourishing sabres above their varnished hats, stopped the riot with a clattering cavalry charge...
...plot is chiefly concerned with the machinations of young Mrs. Chalfont to procure the Governorship of the Island of Ardor for her husband, who is obviously the man for the job, but who is by nature too modest and retiring to fight...
...more than a year has been a crucial offstage character in Freeman F. ("Amos") Gosden and Charles J. ("Andy") Correll's radio skits, surprised the radiaudience by speaking out for the first time. Since last Christmas when Andy, who had met Mme Queen as a manicurist, felt his ardor for her cool, Messrs. Gosden & Correll have marched their story bit-by-bit right into a breach-of-promise courtroom. There it was necessary to have Mme Queen's testimony. So high-voiced Amos spoke for her (as he does for The Kingfish, Brother Crawford and Lightnin'). Testified...