Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bodied man eligible for military service within the next thirty years owes it to himself, to his country, and to the shreds and patches of Western civilization to weigh carefully the problems upon which Hector Lazo throws a searchlight in "Taps." The book tells the story of a young, ardent, Hun-damning warrior, who, forced as a Secret Service man to pose as a conscientious objector, is finally persuaded by the force of his own assumed arguments and by the pleading of a wounded friend to become in all seriousness the determined kind of pacifist which he had been impersonating...
...months famed Radio Engineer Wormys feared that a Nazi "murder party" from Germany would get him, as Nazis got German Philosopher Theodor Lessing, shot two summers ago at Marienbad, Czechoslovakia. Herr Wormys had reasons for his fears. Once the chief technician of the radio station near Stuttgart and an ardent Nazi, he has been for some months the secret Impresario of anti-Nazi broadcasts by Adolf Hitler's deadliest personal foe, Otto Strasser...
...Guild, however, felt it had been sorely betrayed by the White House. Mourned its president, big, baggy Heywood Broun who had long been one of the President's most ardent journalistic supporters: "It is impossible to dodge the fact that the newspaper publishers have cracked down on the President . . . and that Franklin D. Roosevelt has cracked up. . . . The publishers have trotted out that old bogey, freedom of the Press. [They] announce that 'a satisfactory adjustment' has been reached. They mean satisfactory to the publishers. . . . The President made no attempt to learn from the Guild its bill...
...composer of Cavalleria Rusticana was conducting the premiere of Nero, his 18th opera. The occasion brought forth Italy wide acclaim because, besides having written one brief masterpiece, Pietro Mascagni has been a shrewd and ardent Fascist. Government authorities boosted the new opera long before it was performed, announced that Mascagni had captured ''the true spirit of Imperial Rome.'' Mascagni claimed that he had been mulling over the Nero theme for 40 years, that his enthusiasm had lately been rekindled by ''Fascist exaltation...
Norway's morose Haakon VII could thank his stars that in 1934 his Kingdom enjoyed the largest export business since the War, nearly double the volume for 1933. Down in Copenhagen hard-jawed Christian X felt safer because Danish workmen, mostly ardent Socialists, are now only 18% enrolled upon the dole, a magnificent drop from...