Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Once dodging beneath the clouds he noticed a pair of antelope and dipped close to the earth to race their frightened flight. Soon he lost his way; sooner again he found it and sank to safety at Maracay, Venezuela. He motored to nearby Caracas, shook hands, gave thanks for fervent reception, listened to Spanish speeches, prepared to hop to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands...
Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland praised Senator Reed, Grover Cleveland and the outstanding absentees, Dry Senator Thomas James Walsh of Montana and Wet Governor Smith of New York. About the latter. Governor Ritchie waxed fervent: "He has proved himself, of course, the great Governor of a great State and an honest, fearless and efficient administrator. But more than that, the masses sense that here is an authentic voice, not only of the Democratic Party but of the democracy of the nation...
Religious people read the resolution with the same surpise. Scanning the fervent promises they recalled the life and works of Publisher Bonfils who once boasted blood relationship to Napoleon. Some recalled that...
...foundations of the city will be rocked and shattered, with Elmer Davis asking in Harper's "What Has Happened to Boston?", with the memory not yet obliterated of the funeral oration on Boston delivered in the pages of last year's American Mercury, and with the Nation's fervent and constant gibes in the direction of the metropolis of the Commonwealth, what journalists name the "Bub" is apparently in a bad, bad way. The comparison most often cited is that of decadent Rome--the parallel being in the fact that both cities lost their majesties, the one through luxury...
...company. Shakespeare decently stated is really quite as sustaining if not so alluring as an evening with the "Vanities". To be sure there is nothing of particular moment in the manner or method of the present productions. They are not even, unconventional-a fact for which to offer fervent thanks. Slops and buskin are still to be preferred to plus fours and dinner jacket of last year's H. D. C.-unhappy memory...