Word: ardor
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...interesting discrepancy in the emphasis placed on a particular piece of news appeared yesterday in the disposition of the aluminum trust story by leading metropolitan dailies. The World featured the story. Its milder Democratic ally, The New York Times, not feeling so strong a proprietory ardor in the invistigation, allowed it a column in the middle of the first page and a one column head. But the front pages of three Republican papers, The New York Herald-Tribune, The Boston Herald, and The Boston Transcript, were guiltless of the news. It found one column space on page three...
...wonder if you realise that your readers are utterly disgusted with "flaying" and "flayers"? I wish heartily that in the future you return such epistles to their respective writers with a brief note advising them to take a cold bath, which will either cool down their ardor for writing altogether or induce them to rewrite their "stuff" in a gentlemanly manner...
...Boston Post: "Most of them (college papers), in the youthful ardor of their literary souls, allow that something must be done to 'deflate the exaggerated emphasis on college football'. And perhaps some thing should...
...Monday evening the Advocate Building was stormed by a crowd of 200 eager, self-confident Harvard students; last night, 50 of these men had been rewarded for their ardor by Morris Gest and his assistants, who granted the students parts in the Miracle...
...gloomy as a Scottish murderer, he strides with downcast head, while battlements rise out of mist about him and chasms open at his feet. Again, in a lyric moment, his face shines with the ardor of a lover, and when he slips off his shaggy sweater his beholders see a long cloak slip from the shoulders of one who stands under a balcony in Verona. Best of all he loves the thrill of impending defeat, when the pitying crowd can read in his visage the despair of one who has striven and failed, and perceive by his labored breathing...