Word: ardent
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...fine May Day spirits (see FOREIGN NEWS) Moscow's Pravda crowed: "Ardent sympathies toward the Soviet Union are alive and growing in the hearts of millions of workers abroad." To celebrate the occasion, it passed out nosegays to its "sincere friends...
Even California has produced no more overripe character than Dahish the Amazer, a dynamic hypnotist who set himself up in Lebanon as a second Christ, built up an ardent circle of cultists. At the top of his vogue, in 1944, the souks (bazaars) of Beirut peddled many a rumor of orgies in his modern villa in the Mazraa section of the city. Over their tea at the Patisserie Suisse, over cocktails at the seaside Normandie, Beirutis whispered that Dahish was getting into trouble with the Government. Lebanon's good, round President, Sheikh Bechara El Khoury, frowned on Dahish...
...ardent disciple of Berillon, Lucie Guillet, offered the second message of hope. The science she-and she alone-practices, she calls poetico-therapy: the cure, by poetry, of nervous disorders, or physical ailments arising from them. Madame Guillet is a short woman in her middle sixties with an extraordinarily girlish figure, peroxide blonde hair, bulging green eyes and a seared, flabby face. During her poetic treatments, her normally rasping voice, punctuated by peals of raucous laughter, slips easily from a piercing falsetto to a husky, melodramatic whisper...
...profession and the slackening of registration in teachers' colleges. President Conant winds up the "March of Time" with a short speech, and is followed by Donald Duck, and Mickey Mouse, and Pete Smith, and at least one other comical feature. This procession of humor is overpowering: all but ardent Pluto fans are advised to synchronize their entrance to the U.T. with the beginning of "The Jolson Story" and their exit with the end of the "March of Time...
...develop an interesting and often humorous plot. Dealing with the life of a wounded badman recuperating in a Quaker family, the script is both clever and tasteful. The writers manage to convey the beliefs of that seet with all the necessary finesse and still draw the comedy of ardent pacifists playing hosts to a befuddled rustler. While the action follows through to the hoped-for conclusion, the climax happily avoids time-worn convention. John Wayne's choice between the security of his gun and beautiful Gail Russell comes over as a very real emotional problem and allows the execution...