Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their boots. Announced Pravda last week with pride: "The commanding staff who participated in the recent Kiev maneuvers were about 6% workers and 30% collective farmers. . . . The commanders of the Red Army are assisted by the attentions of the Communist Party, the solicitude of the Soviet Government, and the fervent love of the Soviet people." Simultaneously the Government abandoned for the first time the Communist doctrine that Russia's army is for defense only-not for "conquest." which has been considered abominably Capitalist...
...always connected with the Gay Nineties, but which apparently still flourishes. This sets one Freshman apart from the many sons of "executives in corporations and large business concerns," who have not yet been sufficiently soaked by the tax collector to deprive their sons of a Harvard education. The fervent New Dealer expects that this condition may be on the way to correction next year. So far 101 Freshman sons of this group can still hold their heads up with the sons of "93 lawyers, 67 doctors, 79 merchants and one pawnbroker...
...Derby: "The inspector did not, as one of my honorable friends has suggested, 'publicly rebuke a little child's pure and holy love of its country,' but suggested in a private conversation with the teacher that the child's essay perhaps indicated a patriotism more fervent than considered. The inspector demonstrated his own practical patriotism during the World War by serving four years in the British Army...
Meanwhile the Japanese Cabinet, just before the Vanity Fair incident burst, tried last week to settle the recent months of quarrel about Emperor Hirohito's exact status by a solemn and fervent pronouncement. Excerpt...
Charles Wurts, Philadelphia broker, wrote Texas' Senator Tom Connally: "It is my fervent hope that your favorable vote for the Public Utilities Holding Company Bill will result in your losing your seat in the Senate." Replied Senator Connally: "I have your intimidating letter. ... I am wholly indifferent to your coarse impertinence and presumption...