Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only motive which guided me," Goering testified at the N¨urnberg trial, "was my ardent love for my people." No doubt the statement seemed true to him at that dramatic moment-because it was just the right statement for that moment. Swayed by many principles, guided by none, and moved deeply only by a profound sense of the drama of his own life, Goering lived by whim, hunch, and egotism. He alone of the Nazi leaders could have signed the anti-Semitic N¨urnberg Laws and then, at his wife's plea, intervened to save a number...
...Lord, Napoleon's march from Antibes to Paris will look like a Boy Scout parade compared to your triumphant and bloodless march through Spain . . . Not one person will stand in your way. My Lord, your moment has come. Spain is waiting . . ." Even the country's most ardent male monarchists were appalled. Said one: "Luckily it was a letter and not a plea supported by her presence and personality that reached the king. That woman is dynamite!" Dictator Franco's police thought...
Millions of ardent fans agree with Tenor Lanza, in his admiration of 'the voice that has lifted him, almost as smoothly as it clears high C, from Philadelphia's Little Italy to a unique spot in U.S. show busi ness. For natural power and quality, though not for training or polish, it is a voice that many experts rank with those of the titans of opera. The voice sells Lanza, but Lanza, also sells the voice with curly-haired good looks and a paradoxical combination of beaming boyishness and hairy-chested animal magnetism. He is at once...
...succeeds never sought the Foreign Minister's job at all. An ardent nationalist intellectual with good family connections in the Peronista Party, Hipólito Paz asked Perón one day in 1949 to make him vice consul in Mallorca so that he could write a novel there. Perón, having just sacked overambitious Foreign Minister Juan Bramuglia, was at that moment in the market for a Foreign Minister of a more unobtrusive type. He picked Paz, who has made a modest success in the job as a 100% loyal Peronista...
...Really Art? Although Maugham may have made a dressier screen appearance than Thurber presumably will (on Thurber's gaunt frame his expensive clothes give an unfurled effect), several ardent Thurberites have already pointed out that Maugham cannot draw. But, as the question has often been phrased in his home town, Columbus, Ohio: "Can Thurber, either?" For some time now, a psychiatrist has been writing Thurber, offering to cure him of his drawing...