Word: ardor
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...miles across the pampas to Mendoza. There the Prince changed to a special train of the Trans-Andean Railways, was drawn across the divide by two engines, arrived in the pleasant greenery of Santiago di Chili. He began at once to accomplish five gala days, spiced with Chilean ardor...
...rapidly promoted to be General for his brilliant work. At the last German offensive on Rheims, he had under his command the U. S. "Rainbow Division" (42nd) as well as the 2nd and 36th U. S. Divisions, whom he commended in army orders for their valor, spirit, ardor...
...Seccondee, the Prince landed in the sweltering heat of 118° for a four-day visit in the Gold Coast Colony. But the heat was not great enough to melt the ardor of the natives, who gave him a prodigious welcome and a great display of African wealth. From Seccondee, a visit was made to the hinterland of Ashanti where "talking drums"* beat out salutes. Ashanti chiefs presented him with a gold sword, a gold stool (emblem of sovereignty), a gold umbrella and a cloth of gold. A mighty oath of allegiance to the British crown was sworn...
...tour James Stephens, famed Irish poet and author.* He was once an ardent Sinn Feiner but, in the advent of the Free State, he supported the act which conferred upon his native land "dominion status" in the British Commonwealth of Nations. Now, like many other Free State enthusiasts, his ardor has cooled; lie believes that the Irish question has not yet been answered. He therefore observed and suggested: "You know the oldest monarchy of all is Irish. Once there were four kingdoms.† These are all gone with the exception of Ireland, and it is a pity that the oldest...
...abstract of Howells' 40 works of fiction shows that he never wrote of adultery or seduction and only once each of divorce and crime. Politics, religion, science, mechanics, bodily exploits or collisions were also eschewed. The themes were love, "treated with that vividness in innocence and ardor in purity which seem, in literature and life, to be the reward for abstinence from its distempers"; travel, literature and art, ethics, metaphysics (shyly), "the mysticism of psychology" and social problems...