Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...water behind her." But in a short two years all the romance had gone from their marriage. When Elinor confided to Clayton that a friend of his had the gall to kiss her, she was heartbroken to hear her husband chuckle. "Did he? Good old Brookie!" Clayton was ardent only for a male heir. When Elinor presented him with a second daughter, he took off for Monte Carlo in a huff and dropped ?10,000 at cards and roulette. Elinor put her seething romantic frustrations into bestsellers such as The Reflections of Ambrosine, The Vicissitudes of Evangeline (U.S. title...
...York City schoolteacher had been drifting aimlessly since his retirement 18 months ago. Then one day at the institute, "I looked out and saw the frozen pond. I realized what I had been blind to, and I wanted to paint what I saw there, to preserve it." Now an ardent painter, the ex-teacher has also been working on an invention to simplify the building of small houses. Says he of the institute: "It has opened whole vistas for me. Almost too many, in fact...
Network Member. In Long Beach, Calif., Theater Proprietor Milt Arthur discovered an ardent fan laying cables in a trench under the fence of a drive-in movie, learned that he was trying to hook them to the theater's sound system so that he could hear as well as see the movies from his nearby home...
...list carefully weighed and balanced to avoid any unwonted partisanship, ardent Laborites, faithful aides of Prime Ministers Churchill and Eden (including five members of Churchill's secretariat), and deserving politicians in the dominions beyond the seas were all duly remembered by Her Majesty. Only Roger Bannister's name really caught the public fancy in a list largely devoted to bureaucrats rewarded and diplomats given titles appropriate to their jobs...
...clad in the best, and whisk off 50 miles to London in his master's Jaguar to flash ?5 notes in the eyes of a bevy of girl friends. By the time his master married, Patience himself was already paying alimony to one exwife, supporting another and paying ardent court to a prospective third. Where, wondered the local police, who kept a closer eye on Butler Patience than his master did, was he getting the money to spend? Lawyers and Legacies. Last December, as Captain Thornhill, lord of the manor of Diddington, lay dying of a stroke, the police...