Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When asked the old stand-by, "How do you like Harvard men?" she answered "Oh, I've met them before," and later she intimated that they were "lousy with rhythm." Being surrounded by ardent admirers and perhaps wishing to avoid being the cause of a civil war in New England, she refused to comment on the merits of the sons...
...With the ardent cooperation of The Vincent Club, The Junior League, Erskine School and Radcliffe College, the Spring Dramatic Club Show, "The Dog Beneath the Skin", now in the throes of rehearsal, promises more interesting moments than that organization has presented to its theatre-going public in many moons. Featuring speed, sex, and savoir-faire, and with the dancing chorus of Nineveh Girls, consisting of choice Vincent-Clubbers, as a definite highlight, the production is scheduled for exhibition on Friday and Saturday evenings, May 7 and 8, at the Copley Theatre in Boston...
...decorating and real estate. At times she rented her luxurious home to well-paying guests: to Otto Kahn during the Pecora investigation, to James A. Moffett while he was Federal Housing Administrator. Not till last summer did politics take a turn which promised to relieve her finances. As an ardent Roosevelt leader at the Philadelphia Convention, she undid the damage she had done herself at Chicago. The resignation of Minister Ruth Bryan Owen (now Mrs. Rohde) as Minister to Denmark also helped to make an opening for a woman in the diplomatic corps...
...eyed Alfred, Lord Tennyson, taken in 1868 by one of the first and most ardent of amateurs, Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron. Mrs. Cameron was the first to use deliberate distortion of focus to get a soft, painting-like quality in her prints...
...subject of his appointment to the presidency of Mount Holyoke College, Professor Ham said that he had no definite platform of administration but intended to work quitely within the existing system for what he believed was the ideal. Referring to the recent agitation against his appointment by an ardent group of Mount Holyoke feminists, he said with a smile, "I have received innumerable welcomes and some shots since my appointment...