Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which the Prime Minister explained his novel move for solving the Czechoslovak Question (see p. 15). The session closed with a fiery field day of spouted indignation because ships of the Royal Navy continue to stand by while British freighters are bombed in the ports of Leftist Spain. No fervent orator, however, went so far as to demand the alternative: that Spanish Rightist bombers be fired upon by Britons. As members sped to their homes, the Spanish War remained the subject on which the House has wasted most words at this session, but to the credit...
...week was whisked to work in a rickshaw escorted by guards on bicycles. Other Chinese bigwigs were warned to follow the Premier's example of thrift. The Government even discouraged the buying of silk and drinking of tea "as these products should be conserved for export." In a fervent, patriotic convention at Hankow, Chinese political leaders of all factions again pledged unanimous loyalty to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. This game but losing commander prepared for the probable retreat of the Chinese Government from Hankow, the great central "Chicago of China" to which they withdrew after the fall of Nanking...
...heterogeneous a section of American youth as Harvard's student body, one of the few things that all men hold in common is a fervent desire for peace. The man who deplores the bombing of Spanish Loyalists and does not equally deplore the bombing of Spanish Insurgents is not a pacifist, but a politician. There are comparatively few of these politicians at Harvard; they will be found this morning furiously distributing literature. Those who are truly representative of Harvard will go sincerely and soberly to Sanders Theatre, whether Quaker or R.O.T.C. officer, to see what hope remains of preserving peace...
...plebiscite (see p. 23), he was drafted by the Holy See to do a diplomatic job of work on a colleague-Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna. Cardinal Innitzer and the Austrian bishops had admonished Austrian Catholics to vote Ja in the plebiscite, had subscribed that admonition with a fervent "Heil Hitler" (TIME, April 11). The Pope summoned Cardinal Innitzer to the Vatican for an explanation...
...Affairs of Maupassant (Panta Films), in presuming to bring to fervent consummation a liaison that was really carried on entirely by mail between Guy de Maupassant and Marie Bashkirtseff, makes Maupassant out something of a popinjay, shows Marie, in the person of Lili Darvas (wife of Ferenc Molnar), as a luscious morsel even when she is dying a Camille-like death...