Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principals are a young Trappist (Christian) monk who burst his cell and his vows for the world and a young Englishwoman who sought the desert to escape from the world and its strife. They marry, spend their honeymoon in a desert caravan. She, ardent Catholic, knows nothing of his sacrilege. He, ardent lover, dares not tell. When conscience has extorted a confession, she returns him to his monastery and God, betaking herself to the Garden of Allah, gem of the desert, where their courtship began and her days will end. It is a strangely dignified conclusion for a cinema, making...
Babies A La Carte. One of those stage wills decrees the fortune shall go to that one of two cousins, both ardent birth control advocates, who bears the first baby. Both ladies become flustered, flutter through stereotyped agonies, while the rest of the cast flourish jests too frayed to crack...
From the time TIME first made its bow to the public I have been an ardent booster, supporter and reader of its every issue; however, I am indeed very much surprised, chagrined and disillusioned in the attitude that TIME has taken in not putting on the front page cover the picture of the man I believe will rank with Columbus, none other than Lindbergh. There is no use of my stating what I think of him here, however. He typifies all that good American manhood and boyhood stands for today. And I submit that your Mr. Know...
...himself and fell back on bare-faced bed time simplicity when his spirit drooped. It is readable because the legions of sentences are compact and brisk of pace, the characters "stay put" and the antiCapitalistic sermon at the end only lasts a paragraph. Nevertheless, even so ardent a Socialist and generous a man as Floyd Dell must be suspected of gentle hypocrisy when he declares of Oil!: "I can hardly tear myself away from...
...themselves into hysteria, declared the deacons. They had been practicing Pentecostalism assiduously, vehemently. In the description of Reporter Hugh O'Connor of the New York Herald Tribune, "prayer meetings continued late into the night, with men and women intoning Scripture, chanting hymns and imploring the Holy Spirit with ardent cries to come into their souls-at times even falling to the floor of the church and lying outstretched on their backs, rigid, while their lips streamed mystical sounds, supposed to duplicate the 'Gift of Tongues,' such as accompanied the coming of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles...