Word: ardor
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...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...
...aquatic ardor was effectively quenched when he found that a premature dip in the foot bath was hardly pleasant--especially when fully dressed...
Where the Wet-and-Dry lobby investigation will lead, how deeply below the surface it will cut, how much light or heat it will generate depends largely upon the interest, vigor and ardor of the Senate's five lobby chasers, one Wet (Wisconsin's Senator Elaine) and four Drys (Senators Caraway of Arkansas, Robinson of Indiana, Borah of Idaho, Walsh of Montana...
Many Dry women, some Dry men, most of them amateurs, appeared as witnesses before the House Judiciary Committee last week, sought to prove by their arguments in behalf of the 18th Amendment that the old earnestness, ardor and oratory of their cause had not diminished in the decade since it was put into the Constitution. So vehement were their pleadings that an uninformed foreigner, conducted into the hearings, might well have imagined that the committee favored the pending wet bills and that the dry witnesses were striving to change their views...
...young male secretary proposed marriage with an ardor little diminished by the need to phrase it manually or in braille type. He later caused Miss Keller to reflect: "Love makes us blind...