Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japanese are ardent sports; they play hard and they idolize those who play any game better than they. Thus Gehrig, Tilden, Tunney, Ruth are far greater names to them than that of Tsunenohana, their champion wrestler. Japanese baseball addicts possess a faculty which U.S. fans in some measure lack: they like to play as well as watch. Japanese players, unlike U.S. ones who speak largely of golf, poker and guzzling, like to hear about their U.S. counterparts. The little pitchers have big ears and the catchers wait anxiously every day to hear what is doing with big league catchers...
Audiences have now become accustomed to copulation in the theatre and they may wonder how it is that a brief kiss almost causes Newland Archer to leave Mrs. Newland Archer for the Countess Olenska. Today, a playwright would not have used the kiss; but by substituting more ardent gestures he would not have made the situation more compelling. The time of the piece is "the seventies." The troubles of the characters in it are not rendered artificial by the artificialities of its expression, and the graces of a graceful era are retained. Watching the passion and despair of these costumed...
Politically, Thomas Fortune Ryan was an ardent, though a self-effacing Democrat, and his death is the most notable one which has been rumored to be in part the result of Governor Smith's defeat. Like many great makers of money, he discovered, late in life, an interest in pictures. His first wife, who died in 1917, was made a Countess of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope; in 1920 his son, Allan Ryan, cornered the stock of Stutz Motor Car Co., and was expelled from the Stock Exchange for doing so. Thomas Fortune Ryan tried several times...
Women musicians of the first rank are so rare that their existence is denied by many ardent protagonists of masculine superiority, but if there are such things as first rate women artists outside the specialized field of vocal music, the consensus of critical opinion places Miss Varady among them. Although her appearance today is primarily in connection with Music 4, those responsible for the conduct of the course extend the usual cordial invitation to all members of the University. Even if it makes one late for luncheon at some gay gathering elsewhere in New England, the Vagabond recommends attendance...
...Klux Klan and all those who believe that the Pope and Al Smith want to hang 100% Protestant-American babies from the trees on the White House lawn. The Fellowship Forum boasts that its "million readers are a unit against Al Smith because he is wet and they are ardent prohibitionists, but were he dry, most of them would oppose him on religious grounds...