Word: ardent
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...moviegoers flock to Betty's pictures with an ardent persistence they have never offered to other stars of greater beauty and larger gifts? Betty Grable, long-shanked, blue-eyed, 5 ft. 3½ in., no pounds, knows one answer. "Girls," she says, "can see me in a picture and feel I could be one of them." A wag with a parody spoke for the male audience when he sang, with no perceptible rancor toward Betty's bandleader husband...
...young men, Kodály and Bartók, both ardent nationals in music, had squirmed together at the Budapest Conservatory under German professors who, snorts Kodály, "couldn't even speak Hungarian." They had tramped the hills recording more than 6,000 samples of folk music on a primitive Edison machine-and each used this folk music as a base, though what each did with the music was different. Bartok loved stubborn dissonances and wild rhythms; Kodaly preferred to be lyrical and simple. Says Kodaly: "Bartok was more eager to find new-effects and possibilities...
Died. Georges Bernanos, 60, royalist French novelist who blamed his country's ills on it & bourgeoisie; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Paris. An ardent Roman Catholic, Bernanos in 1936 won the French Academy's Grand Prix with Diary of a Country Priest...
...into a sugar bowl at 30 paces), there was a resounding splash and his rod bent double. He played the fighting rainbow and pulled out a three-pounder-middling by Silver Creek standards. Then he caught eight more. Up & downstream from him, oblivious to buzzing mosquitoes, were ardent anglers who had camped there all night, so that they could start fishing...
Last week the Trois-Rivières Junior Chamber of Commerce denounced the ban on mixed bathing. Le Nouvelliste, ardent supporter of the church, assailed "the thoughtlessness of demoniac youth." The Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Centre, the Saint Jean Baptiste Society and the Society of Nocturnal Adoration all rallied to the bishop, ignored the fact that when the Archbishop of Quebec, Monsignor Maurice Roy, was Bishop of Trois-Rivières, he held that mixed bathing was none of the church's business...