Word: vehement
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...most intimate friendship with sweetly vehement Olive Schreiner, but married before she did. His wife was Edith Lees, an able, ubiquitous worker for feminism and the proletariat. They exchanged a single vow?never to deceive?and insured their love against familiarity by living apart six months of the year. Ellis made his headquarters in a Brixton flat, where he abides today, aged 67, in the shy philosophical detachment that he has preserved for 30 years to speculate upon how to make life a whole thing?...
DOLLARS ONLY-Edward W. Bok - Scribner ($1.75). A wealthy retired editor pens a vigorous exhortation to those who waste too much of their lives in the vehement pursuit of the Dollar, an exhortation to public service, "one for all." He promises satisfaction such as they have never known to all who will enlist under that banner with a strange device, "Service...
Since you found it advisable to print the letter of Karl Busch in your issue of Dec. 14, perhaps you will be kind enough to allow me space to voice my vehement protest...
...became heatedly vocal last week over an amendment to the budget passed by the Second Chamber,* which provides for the abolition of the Legation representing the Kingdom of the Netherlands at the Vatican. The amendment was introduced by a Calvinist; and at once the Catholic leader, Mgr. Nolens, became vehement and loudly threatened to wreck the present coalition government if the measure passed. Immediately upon its adoption, the four Catholic members of Premier Colijn's Cabinet resigned. The Dutch press united in scoring both sides for debasing so important an ecclesiastical issue to the level of a political squabble...
...serve my people, whose noble character and loyalty to me in difficult times I shall never forget. ... The coup d'état which Reza Khan has just committed against the constitution and against my dynasty was made at the point of the bayonet. . . . Against it I have raised a vehement and solemn protest. I consider as void and without value all present and future acts of his government. I maintain all my rights and those of my dynasty to the throne of Persia, which, by the grace of God, I hold according to the fundamental laws of my country...