Word: vehement
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Across West Virginia coal fields, through Ohio tire towns, around Michigan automobile factories, over Pennsylvania steel plants and past New England textile mills, the first warmish winds of early spring last week wafted vehement talk of strikes. This chorus of discontent was music to the ears of Labor's leaders, assembled in Washington. For weeks they had been using, with no great success, all their powers of peaceful persuasion to induce Congressional committees to act upon a stack of labor legislation. By last week they were resorting to threatening strike talk as a means of blasting their pet measures...
Perhaps the little yellow slips passed by the Harvard men to the Senator in the Chamber have had something to do with the metamorphosis. One slip cautioned, "Don't gesticulate so much." Another read, "Don't let your voice rise so high; don't be so vehement...
...automobile; near Stockton, Calif. Campaigning against graft in the city government, Editor Older of the Bulletin in 1906 piled up enough evidence to send Grafter Abraham Ruef to jail. Then, believing him scapegoat of a corrupt system, he fought long to get Ruef freed. Older in 1916 started a vehement crusade for Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings, during which he accused District Attorney Charles M. Fickert of "framing" the pair and was assaulted by Fickert in a hotel lobby. Refused support by his own paper, Older went to Hearst's Call, remained when the two were merged...
...Carnival is a season of buffoonery," explained earnest Staatsminister Esser. "The Nazi salute is too holy and sanctified to be given in carnival." Elsewhere in the Fatherland brownshirt stalwarts expressed the vehement opinion that nobody but a Bavarian buffoon would think of mincing about with hand over heart all during carnival...
Largest and in every way most conspicuous of the minor characters was Professor Merriman as Mistress Quince the only female part in the play: Looking like a combination of a windmill and Alice's white rabbit, he squeaked incessantly "Jesu Jesu!" desending only from the treble to protest vehement that he "never had been called woman in this House before...