Word: ardent
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...TIME remember its army of ardent women readers- workers all, who must have their night's rest in order to be equipped for their allotted portion of prosaic duties in this old workaday world. EFFIE DELL JOHNSON Deaconess Ravenswood Methodist Episcopal Church, Chicago...
...told in an editorial that "Lampy has thrown open his pages to the ardent versifiers and enlarged his already spacious garret for their comfort." From the samples he gives us, our only regret is that there are not more of these rondeaus, ballads, and other charming whatnots of the facile versifier's art, which might have taken the place of a few of the prose selections; for some of the latter are--well--as we have said before, not after his best manner, which is putting it charitably. Of particular feebleness are the two attempts on pages one twenty...
There can be no doubt that this "musical version" of the novel of famed Author Alexandre Dumas is as good as any such production is likely to be. Mr. Ziegfeld, hitherto the most ardent sponsor of these things, has announced that he intends to produce no more of them...
...House. Husband Runciman, as everyone knows, was recently President of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom (1926-27), and is gradually taking over the superintendence of his father's shipping interests. Father & father-in-law Sir Walter Runciman, no longer a seaman but an ardent yachtsman, has recently completed an autobiograpical work of much gusto and sap, entitled appropriately Before the Mast-and After...
...That ardent Communist, M. Le Deputy Pioqemal, pounded furiously upon his desk in the Chamber, last week, thus sounding the familiar prelude to one of his eruptions...