Word: fervently
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...Fervent, florid Senator James A. Reed of Missouri and his more or less silent colleagues continued their investigation of campaign expenses. At one point, Senator Reed was at pains to remind people that this dredging, though begun among slushy millions in Pennsylvania, would be extended to "every State in the union." The next state will be Illinois. The committee will repair to Chicago this month to plumb charges made last week by busy-buzzing Senator Thaddeus Caraway that three or more millions were spent on candidates...
...fervent "patriotic spirit" in which this wholesale counterfeiting was undertaken came strongly to the fore last week as the trial of the counterfeiters drew to a close at Budapest. One of the accused, M. Szortsey, President of the Hungarian National Association, declared passionately...
...talk of the leader of one's faith, even the meanest, in connection with "pussyfoot" and "detour" is to lower the esteem for that leader, held by the most fervent, provided the most fervent has retained his sense of the eternal fitness of things. This convention is about to make a compromise so that those who favor complete immersion and those who do not can continue in the same church without words of little wisdom and much bitterness. In the role of advocate for moderation and compromise Dr. Brougher has, in his category at least, a decent part to play...
...style more ambitious than his usual utterance. Consider the following sentence: "And when the wanton ravages of war reduced this once flourishing institution, which had spoken so boldly in the cause of liberty, to a state that left little but the vibrant tones of the college bell and the fervent prayers of a devout President, it was a distinguished son of Harvard, Senator Hoar, who pleaded her just cause with such eloquence in the halls of Congress that a dilatory Government at last made restitution for a part of the damage done, that this seat of learning might be restored...
Upon the Capitoline, smallest of Rome's seven hills, Premier Mussolini spoke last week in a mood of fervent exaltation before the International Congress of Surgeons...