Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prince Hichibu, nearly 22, is the greatest favorite of the Japanese after Prince Regent Hirohito. Like his elder brother, he is an ardent democrat, has endeared himself to the people of the "Island Empire of the East" by his simplicity, frankness, unaffected charm...
...WHOM HER AUDIENCES NEVER KNEW-Mme. Pierre Berton-Boni & Liveright ($3.50). This absorbing biography of an absorbing personality contains much dramatic material which Sarah purposely omitted from her memoirs. It is a frank and intimate picture of a woman of undoubted genius. And while its author is obviously an ardent admirer, she was also too close a friend not to recognize the many weaknesses, eccentricities and faults that go hand in hand with genius; these she has faithfully recounted. The London Times ranks this biography as "fit to stand, if not beside at least in the shadow of Boswell...
Although an Italian, nurtured amid brilliant stage-lights and full throated choruses in the Scala at Milan, he is still an ardent and perfect Wagnerite. Thus he pleases both the Verdi and Puccini enthusiasts, with their passion for the good old things, and the moderns, who want to get away from the bad old things. He lives solely for his job, arrives at the "House" early each day, leaves late...
...Strong, ardent, and mature, he held it fast...
...True, ardent, old-till every wrong be righted...