Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just this Anglo-Stoic reticence which makes Ned's letters read more like those of an ardent, puttering professor than an inspired leader of men. Hundreds of his early letters contain nothing more exciting than the measurements, in feet and inches, of innumerable loopholes, embrasures and arches, plus detailed information about the price of milk and bread and the state of his bicycle ("34 punctures to date ... in 1,400 miles"). If Ned's letters were the only clue to his identity, readers would think that all he did in World War I was collect stamps...
Forty thousand ardent Fascists gathered in Rome to hail the new head, stomped by his palace window looking upwards eagerly. But a lady visitor had come to see Mussolini, and the head was in no position to review his followers...
...hoped, he wrote, to "suppress all monks indiscriminately" and use religion chiefly as a means of teaching docility to growing girls ("There is nothing I dislike so much as a meddlesome woman"). But he readily became "Your Holiness' devoted son" when he needed papal aid-and an ardent Moslem when he invaded Egypt ("There is no other god but God, and Mahomet is his prophet!"). French Jews, he ordered, must be convinced that with his help they would find the "New Jerusalem" in France-despite his convictions, expressed in another letter, that they were "the most despicable race...
...since the last century, when Henry Ward Beecher kissed Mrs. Tilton, has fashionable Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. had a clergyman as controversial as the Rev. William Howard Melish, 44. Melish, an ardent, undeviating representative of the far, far left, has joined, helped found or led almost a score of organizations long since discredited by Communist infiltration. Melish's politics forced his father, the Rev. John Howard Melish, out of his job as rector at Brooklyn's Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. The younger Melish hangs on as acting pastor in his father's church only because the bishop cannot...
...Midwestern farm-bloc isolationism, wealthy (grain-trading) Hugh Butler, in 14 years in the Senate, came out against lend-lease, wartime extension of the draft act, reciprocal trade, Social Security, all Government subsidies, the Marshall Plan, Point Four and Korean intervention, last year reversed his field and became an ardent champion of Hawaiian statehood...