Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reflection upon the truth of that cause embraced by the men who took part in the Great War, appeared in the columns of Monday's CRIMSON. Its ardent desire to foster our rapidly-developing modern attitude toward war confused somewhat irrationally that abstract attitude toward war with the very actual inspiration that carried these men forth. It is devoutly to be hoped that we shall all, in time, appreciate the futility of war even if we cannot appreciate its cruelty. But we may hope with almost equal fervor that our disdain for war itself be not transmuted into disdain...
...west through Massachusetts from Boston, Al Smith was hailed like a conquering hero. At every stop huge crowds clustered about his car. In them was to be seen many a Catholic priest. Democrat Smith waved his brown derby but resolutely refused to speak or start handshaking. At Worcester one ardent friend snatched a cigar butt out of his hand, carried it off amid much scuffling as a souvenir...
...signs of the times last week. In Wall Street, where his candidate was unpopular, betting odds favored Roosevelt's election 2½-to-1. All except the most biased Republican newshawks touring the country reported evidences of a strong anti-Hoover tide still running. Even so ardent a claimer as Robert Lucas, ''brains" of the G. O. P. headquarters at Chicago, last week reported to President Hoover that only 270 electoral votes-a majority of four-were in sight for his reelection...
...play has few pretensions to distinction. A tempestuous and ardent German danseuse (Miss Ulric) is joined on her U. S. tour by a young Philadelphia millionaire who hides his identity from her, agrees not to make love to her if she will take him on as her piano player. Attired for the most part in revealing negligees, Miss Ulric at one moment tries to seduce him with the familiar Ulric twistings and oglings, at the next moment wards him off with her rasping voice. The struggle ends in a Rocky Mountain blizzard which has marooned the dancer's private...
...Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, is known as that of the longtime (1905-16) British Foreign Secretary who reluctantly but vigorously led his country into the World War. Rhodes Scholars know that he is Chancellor of Oxford University. Sportsmen and naturalists may have heard that he is an ardent fisherman and a lover of wild life, but few are aware of the extent to which he has carried this passion, of the work and patience the weak-eyed old gentleman (he is 70) has expended to tame wild fowl to the point where he could learn facts about them...