Word: vehement
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...pass. The Socialists, unwilling to accept the responsibility which this move would thrust upon them, are threatening to vote 50-50 likewise, and have already issued a manifesto demanding that the Reichstag be dissolved and the electorate directly appealed to. For the nonce the factions have taken to vehement radio broadcasting of their views...
...used to buy Bellows' Two Women (TIME, Jan. 12) for the Metropolitan Museum. The offer was made on the day of Bellows' death. On that day, Zuloaga and Bellows were both exhibiting in Manhattan. It is stated that 1,000 persons passed each day before the billowing, vehement, satiric canvases of Zuloaga; the sales had reached a huge sum. Fewer sales, fewer observers attended the Bellows exhibit. At the announcement of Zuloaga's gift, U. S. friends and artists talked among themselves. Zuloaga, they knew, had only twice met Bellows. Such phrases of their colloquy...
...defense of Turkey's policy in regard to the Armenians and the "massacres" M. Moukbil was particularly vehement...
...block" pep and head-work of "the clever young American" insure an amicable result. Here it is that the author proves that the appellation "Bull" is not one of the inalienable rights of English men, but can be equally well applied to an American Sam or Hiram, Strained relations, vehement protestations, and misunderstandings follow; but somehow both deals are completed and the Englishman shows that he's "a sport" and the American that he isn't "a blooming rotter", for "heads on the coin" says that "they are to be married in England...
Percy Hammond: "A vehement exposition of a marriage between a stupid Negro and a stupid white woman. If it is possible for you to get an emotion out of that situation, here is your opportunity...