Word: ardors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expressive shrug of the shoulders. The truth was, so the rumor ran, that Primo had fallen in love, which, in the best circles, is not considered orthodox for a married man. La Caoba, "auburn-haired dancing girl of surpassing beauty," is the reputed recipient of Primo's ardor...
...fans.) 2) " Better sporting departments." 3) "Better first pages." 4) "Snappier news and editorial writing." The writer then closed, mellifluously: "Papers everywhere are splendidly good." There are, obviously, exceptions to the rules thus laid down. What newspaper, save the Chicago Tribune, could "boost" its home town with more incessant ardor than the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the Baltimore Sun, the Bridgeport Post, the Philadelphia Public Ledger or the New York World? What newspaper could, in fairness to its readers, carry more educational news than that earnest sheet, the Christian Science Monitor? What newspaper would dare charge more than five cents...
...respected Senator. In Indo-China as Magistrate, in Algeria as Justice of the Peace, as Minister at various times of the Colonies, of Commerce, of Education, or of Foreign Affairs, his low, slow and simple voice never failed to impress men. He speaks with a certain ardor that compels, and with a knowledge of his subject that only brings forth admiration from friends and enemies. The French call him sympathigue, which says much for his character. In appearance he resembles a jovial and prosperous farmer; his features are hardly handsome, for, like his Premier, he is inclined to corpulency...
...Tokyo, masses assembled to give ear to anti-American ardor. One of the largest meetings was held at the sacred Meiji shrine (religious symbol of modern Japan erected in memory of the present era which began in 1867, when the terrible Shoguns who had for years been de facto sovereigns of Japan were ousted). "Hate" societies plastered the city with placards which read...
...Marr so that he may continue to teach them. The six professors, as one man, declared that "it makes no difference whether an artist is 65 or 25. A young man may express a musty spirit in his work, and the older man one that breathes the ardor of youth." Von Marr reversed the usual order of things, for he emigrated to Europe to seek his fame and fortune, and became the first and only State-employed professor of painting of American birth in Germany. Some of his paintings hang in the Munich Kunstverein...