Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guevara is one of the two resident commissioners who represent the Filipino government in Washington, and in this capacity he has made several addresses in the east. He comes to Boston primarily to confer with Mr. Moorfield Storey '66, a Boston attorney, who was an ardent advocate of independence for the Philippines at the time when the United States withdrew its military authority from the islands after the Spanish-American war. Mr. Storey will introduce Mr. Guevara this evening...
...sources of his victory lay in various factors. Under his guidance the German operas grew better. It might have been noted in the first place that Gatti was an ardent Wagnerite then, as he is today, He had made a specialty of Wagner at La Scala. And he had brought with him a prodigious Wagnerian conductor in Toscanini. And then he was a first-rate master of economical management, the sort of man who would shrink a deficit. It did not take the clever business men on the Board of Directors long to observe that. They supported him vigorously. With...
...vivid, animated and, in certain poses and moods, beautiful. She has dark hair, dark eyes dark skin, bright lips. She talks quickly and brilliantly. Her conversation is lit with epigrams and she has moments of caustic comment on life in general and people in particular. One of the most ardent feminists for years, she nevertheless does not smoke. To her lecture tour which starts this week she looks forward with much trepidation. But she is a good actress (she once acted in London and as a young girl was dropped from a cast because she was caught reading Creative Evolution...
...from their conference at West Baden, the Governors entrained, sped to Washington. There they were joined by several others who had not been at the Conference of Governors. Notable among these additions to the Governors' party were Messrs. Ritchie of Maryland and Smith of New York, ardent Wets...
...Guevara is an ardent supporter of independence for the Philippines, desiring to place the islands in the same political position that Cuba occupies today. His address will be the first concerning the Philippines to be given at the Union in some years...