Word: ardors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result that many overzealous individuals were completely routed when a torrent of water, unleashed from the hose, escaped from a broken window. In another instance, the firemen, taunted with concerted chants of "Let it burn!" and "Damn the firemen", turned the hose and swept the crowd, somewhat dampening the ardor of the surging ranks...
Zoologist William Morton Wheeler, 63, of Harvard, who studied cockroaches, fleas, ants and other insects with more ardor, patience and intelligence than a woman studies another woman's clothes...
Fred Albert Britten is the Navy Department's best friend, the admirals' right arm. His predecessor, as chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, the late Thomas S. Butler of Pennsylvania, was a Quaker. Many a grizzled seadog suspected (wrongly) that Mr. Butler's faith tempered his ardor for a Big Navy. Mr. Britten, who learned about pugilism, hard-boiled politics and the contracting business in San Francisco and Chicago, has endeared himself to all U. S. sailors by years of pounding the table for more guns, more cruisers, more Navy. In the coming session he will pound...
...President Wilson went to the Versailles Conference he took the Secretary of State. Mr. Lansing opposed linking the League Covenant with the Peace Treaty, was antagonistic to the Treaty itself. He had many erudite theories. But President Wilson had long felt the onrush of foes, foreign & domestic. His visionary ardor had become imperiousness, self-sufficiency. He conferred with the Secretary only once, ignored his ideas. Robert Lansing impotently watched the wise foreign diplomats, wrote in his diary that Mr. Wilson was a "catspaw." The forcible, white-haired Secretary was himself not even permitted the directed force...
...Virginian, a son of the W. C. T. U. His name is a synonym for the militant, reforming, social-working element of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, South. He has long sought to reunite the northern and southern wings of his faith, which split over slavery in 1844. His lifelong ardor for Prohibition is explained, in his own words, as follows...