Word: ardors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young male secretary proposed marriage with an ardor little diminished by the need to phrase it manually or in braille type. He later caused Miss Keller to reflect: "Love makes us blind...
...down the main street of Galveston in the first crinoline that town ever saw. Her charms thus enhanced induced old Isaacs Menken, vocal teacher, to make her a Jewess and his bride. A memory of her first love drove her from Menken's hearth, but later gave morbid ardor to her acting of Lady Macbeth in New Orleans. In New York she became a poetess and the wife of Heavyweight Champion John C. Heenan. Her acting in Mazeppa brought her fame. This was the sensational play wherein, as a Tartar boy, she wore the first boyish...
Tariff revision was perceptibly braked last week in the Senate Finance Committee. Republican revisionists on the committee seemed suddenly to have lost their ardor for "embargo duties." President Hoover was given "assurances" that the Senate's tariff bill would be held within the bounds of his desires. For this change in tariff tempo were four explanations...
...once a Pennsylvania school teacher.* She entered the Prohibition Bureau in 1922 when Roy Asa Haynes, a "loan" from the Anti-Saloon League, was its director. Mr. Haynes. zealot, yearned to-"sell" Prohibition to the country by direct advertising, by special school courses. Miss Sutter shared his ardor but it was not until this year that Congress supplied wherewithal for the experiment. She had prepared a mass of Dry material which she was to take to the National Education Association's meeting last week in Atlanta when, a little prematurely, she revealed her purpose...
...Stream, Mr. Lewisohn began the spiritual autobiography of a Jew who, conventionally educated in South Carolina, flung his religious ardor into Methodism, progressed miraculously into free thought, attained at last an understanding of his Jewishness. Immersed for seven years in the cause of Zionism, he resumes in Mid-Channel the intimate personal chronicle of himself as a Jew wandering over the face of Europe...