Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Politics: Joined Socialist Youth at 15, organized apprentice teachers; became secretary of Teachers Union in 1932 and lost his job. Married Odette Fraigneau, Arras post-office employee and ardent Socialist...
...collection was the personal triumph as well as the joy of Actor Robinson, who as a boy had been an ardent collector of cigar bands, had moved on to oils 25 years ago (after Little Caesar), when his Hollywood salary jumped from $1,000 to $7,000 a week. Among his prize canvases were Corot's L'ltalienne, Ceézanne's The Black Clock, and masterpieces by Van Gogh, Degas, Matisse, Renoir, Gauguin, and almost every other major French painter of the past half-century. When the collection became notable, Robinson opened his Hollywood home...
...effect was a national wave of sentiment in favor of Mike Parker reminiscent of the emotional binge touched off two years ago by the unhappy romance of Princess Margaret and divorced commoner (and palace staffer) Peter Townsend. "Why," demanded Lord Beaverbrook's Express, for many years an ardent opponent of palace puritanism, "should a broken marriage be a disqualification for royal service? Until a few weeks ago the First Minister of the Queen [twice-married Sir Anthony Eden] was a man who had been through the divorce courts...
Since the days when Jim Carey was an ardent young liberal at the forefront of the C.I.O. movement, the International Union of Electrical Workers' president -like many another labor leader-has been wary of congressional interference in union affairs. Last week 45-year-old Jim Carey changed his mind. In announcing that the I.U.E. had adopted an ethical-practices code far tougher than anything yet accepted by its fellows, President Carey 1) publicly called on all unions to recognize Congress' right to investigate labor racketeering and corruption, and 2) bluntly declared that any I.U.E. officer who pleaded...
Reynaud's ardent support put new heart into the government. Summing up the case for the Common Market, Mollet cried eloquently: "How often between an America sometimes too impulsive, some-times too slow to understand the perils, and a Soviet Union, disquieting and often menacing, have we wished for the existence of a united Europe, a world force not neutral but independent. This dream, this hope is today within our grasp. Have we the right to let it escape...