Word: ardors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gates, and the commoners of London, "the poor mechanicals" of the poet, ran out from their shops and gaped down the street at Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex come from the Irish bogs to make his peace with Elizabeth. The noble earl's visit was impelled more by ardor than discretion, so the old chronicle hath it, for it was early morning and the queen was not in the parlor. Elizabeth received her favorite coldly, and Essex retired, not the first or last Englishman to regret his excursion to the fields of Ulster. Thereafter the Earl only sulked...
...secondary school (sometimes for pay), and when he sees his college taking in all this easy money he sees no reason why he should not receive something for the hard work which brings so much money into the college till. At this point comes the bootlegging alumnus, filled with ardor for the success of Alma Mater, ready to subsidize the young athlete by dark and devious methods...
Norman Thomas is no "tired liberal." The fact that he never won any of his races in no way cools his ardor as a perennial Socialist candidate. To him a campaign is more a form of public education than a means of attaining office. The only political job he ever held was as a member of the New York City School Board (1914-17). No other famed Socialists, however, seriously contest Mr. Thomas' right to run for the Presidency. One who might, if he were ever divorced from his present job, is Daniel Webster Hoan, now serving his seventeenth year...
...What ardor was present resulted from the contested seating of blocs of delegates from South Carolina headed by Joseph ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert and from Mississippi under Negro Perry W. Howard. Postmaster General Brown, President Hoover's political organizer, had been working to weed out these national committeemen ever since the administration promised to "clean up the G. O. P. south" in 1929. But after a ballot behind closed doors the national committee voted to seat Messrs. Tolbert and Howard, first sign of Old Guard recalcitrance to White House suasion...
Political perversity in extreme form is evident in Representative Reardon's resolution to investigate Harvard's proposed contract to sell steam to the Rindge School. But plots return to plague the inventors, and the Representative's extraordinary ardor for preventing Harvard's undreamed aspirations to become a power trust will effect his own reputation rather than the University...