Word: ardours
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...Vagabond has passed through the turmoil of being finger-printed by the Bursar's minions and catalogued in the files of the Summer School like a rare bird's egg, with his collar dampened as much as his ardour and a fine healthy contempt for geographical distribution blanks, salmon-colored cards which the officials call pink, and courses which may or may not give him a half credit for an A.B. The Vagabond is a large man and impatient of all these peccadilloes. His spirit rides a swift charger and he would be off somewhere in the country, dawdling...
...dear Miguel Mariano Gomez, making him a warrior of the '95 war! (Then he must have been-if he existed-a feeding baby!) By that scale you may see the augmentation of all this. Tropical temperament is very appassionate and in both ways they do politics with ardour. Do you know that actual oppositionists to government use to blow off with bombs concealed in automobiles etc. innocent citizens? Do you know that a poor woman was passing by a street with her two years baby by the hand when a bomb exploded and turned the baby into pieces...
...intercollegiate hurdle champion, in both hurdles events in the University handicap meet Saturday. The other high point winner was Francis Schumann '35, who carried away first places in both the pole vault and discus throw. A chilling wind, which lasted all afternoon, contributed much to take away the ardour of the competitors and interest of the spectators...
...obscure and mysterious enterprises in which dogs, all over the world, engage, seldom coincide with the equally enigmatic but less obscure adventures to which men direct their attention. Yet, at each end of the earth, a bone is buried. And for this bone, with equal ardour, under a sky that is like a shallow bell of cold and darkly irridescent glass, across terraced and interminable lawns of snow, men and dogs scramble together. Last week, Richard E. Byrd, famed aviator, spoke of his proposed South Polar expedition. Said he: "I shall take three airplanes and 100 dogs...
...Certain it is," declares Herr Ludwig, "that at 27 Prince Wilhelm lost his heart. ... [He had married at 22, took no mistresses.] Suppressed sentimentality needed a field for ardour, fancy yearned for an artistic friendship. . . . And he found it all in Count Philip Eulenburg, to whom he was most fervently attached. . . . Whether his nature was inherently incapable of devoted affection for a women ... he followed the fashion of his time and group, wherein there was an abundance of male friendships...