Word: vehemently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have caused world-wide privation, Unemployment, want, starvation, Trade and industry stagnation; You have caused humiliation, Hatred and recrimination, Anger and denunciation, Vehement expostulation, Armament, war preparation...
...broader than ever as he faced the first one, empty handed. "Good afternoon," said he, politely, innocently. "What can I do for you this afternoon?" Vainly each man pleaded, reasoned, expostulated, protested ; begged to know why his paper was being excluded from this, the picture of pictures! Most vehement was the reporter from the Mirror, which had heralded the advance of Baby Lindbergh for some six months and had printed a large "artist's conception" of the mother & child on the birthday. To all questions Col. Lindbergh returned a smile of increasing breadth and the reply: "Sorry...
...Most vehement in his denunciation of the plan was Mr. Knopf who justifiably claims to have made many a good book popular, and to have raised typographic and material standards in American book manufacture. Concurring with him were E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., Frederick A. Stokes, Scribner's, G. P. Putnam's Sons. These and others were content to say that they had no intention of joining the stampede. Mr. Knopf, who has given the matter much thought, said further...
...grew weary traipsing back and forth between the two committees all week long. Their testimony grew jumbled in the confusion of double hearings. But above the welter of words and figures, the loud police court methods of interrogation used by unfriendly Senators, the first poundings and cane thumpings of vehement witnesses, emerged the definite out lines of a real and important division of opinion on naval policy...
...them amateurs, appeared as witnesses before the House Judiciary Committee last week, sought to prove by their arguments in behalf of the 18th Amendment that the old earnestness, ardor and oratory of their cause had not diminished in the decade since it was put into the Constitution. So vehement were their pleadings that an uninformed foreigner, conducted into the hearings, might well have imagined that the committee favored the pending wet bills and that the dry witnesses were striving to change their views...