Word: ardor
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...take its pleasure in Actor Charles Bickford's tacit agreement. He is supposed to be a rufous Wyoming body-snatcher who has never missed his snatch, even including a warm Manhattan divorcee who strolls into Cody dressed for Newport. Something about her is supposed to purify his ardor; he has to return from her bedroom saying he "wouldn't do such." The bedroom is in a dude lodge belonging to two embittered Manhattan males with a shingle over their door, "Damn the Women." One of these males is melted by the divorcée. Nancy, a profane prairie...
...your admirable review of political corruption in the States you touched upon the activities of the shoe-polish interests in Louisiana, their ardor in drilling new wells for the purpose of making carbon black, in turn to be used in the manufacture of shoe-polish "and other products...
...mention of her is made in the "authorized" Life of Benito Mussolini, though several of his early mistresses are dwelt upon. The young Mussolini-hodcarrier, schoolmaster, editor-yet burned with an ardor which singed many a maid and dame ere ever he set the world on fire...
...superstition, fear and ignorance, and the devotees of which feel it their duty to show their piety by publicly kow-towing at the behest of some dervish who prates the while about glory, salvation and sin--then we may safely and thankfully say that Harvard is lacking religious ardor. And--it is well to bear in mind that Harvard's freedom from religious narrowness and bigotry has been and is one of the many factors which make her the leading University of the country. But if religion means an appreciation of the works of nature and a feeling of admiration...
Furthermore, he has closed his eyes to any vision of himself on the Pontifical throne. When in the spring of 1924 he received the red hat of his cardinalcy he exclaimed (TM) the ardor of his new investiture: I have reached the topmost rung of the Iadder for an ecclesiastic?the highest honor for a churchman?while still in the prime of life. I have no other ambition...