Word: vehement
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...Grant was very vehement in striking at his conservative opponents. "In the sixteen hundreds," he said, "religious questions were political questions, and an atheist or a Baptist was an anarchist. We are returning to such a condition, and can seen in religious bigotry, and ignorance, and persecution, a political threat. The basis of all this conservative certitude and attack upon progressiveness is to be favored in the miraculous character of the religious they profess and the sense of providential care and direction under which they flourish. If Jesus is to return in clouds of glory and snatch up Brother Stratton...
...present instance, the Republican Club waxes as vehement and conspicuous as its predecessor which flourished in the day of Harrison and Cleveland, the Democrats will have to look to their standards. In the 1980's a mock election was held in the College. Harrison polled 1114 votes to Cleveland's 851, and feeling ran so high that the Graduates' Magazine excused it by saying "That no incompatibility existed between one's membership in Harvard College and a dignified participation in political affairs, even in a strictly partisan way." Evidently, from this, some liberalist, best-man sentiment...
...foreign affairs about which he himself knew only what I told him. for instance, I kept the public well posted through him about the Serbian regicides and the folly of our government's renewing relations with that country. So when Servia plunged us into war, he issued a vehement article and placarded the country with posters announcing TO HELL WITH SERVIA...
William Hard adequately sums up Chairman Lasker in one rather long sentence: " A loyal and compelling personality and an acute and vehement business intelligence-these have been Mr. Lasker's virtues, not without producing in him a certain tincture of corresponding defects...
...Walter Gilbert's lawbreaker was more than characteristically good; and, playing with unusual reserve, Miss Roach, as the banker's daughter with a penchant for reform, had well-deserved success. And Evata Nudsen made a really charming Gold-digger, perhaps over vociferous at times, perhaps too frequent and vehement in her assertions that she was a "good girl", for that is one of those things that should need no assertion--but that is the fault of the author, and this is an American play...