Word: ardors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...privilege of youth to be silly in its ardor, amusing in its lack of a sense of humor. It is the duty of youth to aspire mightily, oven at the risk of appearing ridiculous to those who admit themselves to be wise and sane. But it has no right to don the garments of old men and sit by the fireside smiling in a supercilious, sophisticated manner at the "other buffoons...
Altogether his Honor found much to amuse and instruct him. Something of the ardor of his Arabian predecessor must have led Mr. Peters to adopt this romantic and effective method of gaining first-hand information. It is so un-American. Perhaps if we could but infuse a little more of this spirit into our other officials, they would gain a clearer insight into the true needs of the people than they often seem to possess...
Accepted by the House, the bill, making legal Sunday sport of amateur character in Massachusetts, is at last on the way to becoming fact. Long have the golfers and tennis players in the Bay State Been deprived with Puritanical ardor of the exercise and recreation so much needed after a week of indoor work. Those how religiously go to church every Sunday and have had to sit all afternoon before an open window, with Plato's "Republic", before them, will no longer have to simulate long "dries" or back-hand "volleys...