Word: vehementer
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...speaker, forthright, vehement, was not the President of Mexico, Plutarcho Elias Calles. He was instead the Chairman of the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator William Edgar Borah. He was commenting on the release to the press last week of an exchange of notes between the U. S. and Mexico. He concluded: "There is a difference of view between the two Governments as to the effect of Mexico's Constitution and laws upon property of Americans. . . . Undoubtedly emphatic language has been used. . . . But I do not find in the notes any threat, any ultimatum. ... I do not think...
Justice McKenna usually armed himself on the bench with a magnificent, reticent dignity, but in times of argument he rose like an angry emperor slashing controversy with vehement logic, scorching opponents with Voltairian sarcasm. Off the bench he was as genial as an Irish sergeant...
Fifth Game. Once more Pennock, as deliberate as a garbageman stood against Sherdel, vehement, in baggy trousers. For five innings Sherdel, famed for his delayed ball, pitched perfectly; his slow curves wound whitely up to the plate and winked out of sight into Catcher O'Farrell's glove while Yankee batsmen swore and pirouetted. But in the ninth inning Pinch Hitter Paschal smashed a single to centre scoring Gehrig, tying the score, 2 to 2. An extra inning gave the Yankees victory. Score: New York. 3; St. Louis...
...speaking of the University, say. "One of the worst features of this wretched place is......". For the moment, I though I was in England again. That is exactly the talk one hears at Oxford. It is perhaps less violent in England than here, because the English are not as vehement by temperament as the Americans, but it is present, and I think it bodes well for the future...
...deeper travail. She leaves Walt more alone than ever, except to put food where he can get it and unlatch the kitchen window when he is gone to wander in the night, during months of vision, revision, destruction and creation, months of the purgation, despair, and finally the vehement triumph of a man giving his whole self to his country and his kind...