Word: fervently
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...just lost a "stone" (14 lb.). Under doctors' orders he and Mrs. Henderson spent most of August gulping down the slimming waters of a Welsh spa (Llandrindod Wells), from which they hastened via London to Geneva. In pulpit tones, measured, slow and once or twice ringingly fervent, Mr. Henderson made last week the speech of his life, successfully courted fame by demanding that the League act to achieve Disarmament, cease piddling about "Security," the Frenchified nebulosity upon which M. Briand is trying to erect his famed "United States of Europe" (TIME, Sept...
Despite luncheons and teaparties in New York by the Brazilian consul general and that fervent admirer of Brazilian beauty, the Electric Bond & Share Corp., despite special wires relaying minute by minute descriptions of Miss Brazil's doings to South America, she did not win. Worst of all, with ten prizes to be awarded, she did not even place. The affaire Bergamini-Galveston almost became a diplomatic incident. Brazilians swore a mighty oath that never, never again would they send one of their fair daughters to exhibit herself before unappreciative Galvestonians...
Rumania's Minister to Jugoslavia made fervent protest in Belgrade last week against a Jugo-Slav operetta, His Majesty in a Bathing Suit, which, said he, was an obvious caricature of the love affairs of King Carol II. King Carol's spectacled brother-in-law. Dictator-King Alexander, ordered the offending scenes censored...
Next morning, in all but the ultra-conservative press, the defeated conspiracy was bitterly assailed as "un-British trickery" and, even more scathingly, as "not cricket." Despite his fervent protests of innocence, editors refused to believe Mr. Lloyd George entirely guiltless. Commented the Labor Daily Herald...
...shot owned by John Arthur Dewar, nephew and heir of whiskey's Baron Dewar whose title died with him (TIME, April 21). In cinema theatres throughout Britain the flashed news that "their Majesties were standing a very short distance from where the lightning struck" led to much fervent singing of "God save our gracious King, Long live our noble King...