Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were in & out of each other's offices all day long. Almond geared his working time to the late hours and seven-day routine of the Supreme Commander. He represented MacArthur at most official social functions. The Chief of Staff became one of the most ardent MacArthur disciples. He looks on his superior as the 20th Century's outstanding military genius; he will not rank MacArthur for all time, "because it's hard to compare the present day with the time of Napoleon, Caesar or Hannibal...
Full Appreciation. The Citizen's story, based on an interview with the dowager Duchess of Hamilton,* was taken from the London weekly Psychic News, a leading publication of Britain's spiritualist cult. A longtime acquaintance of the bachelor Prime Minister and an ardent spiritualist herself, the duchess declared that King "fully appreciated the spiritual direction of the universe and was always seeking guidance for himself in his work...
...chairman of the Democratic National Committee; at his home near Centerville, Md. A cigarmaker's son who started out as a stenographer, Raskob arranged the deals that brought E. I. du Pont money into General Motors, became chairman of G.M.'s finance committee and a multimillionaire. An ardent Wet, he plunged into politics in '28 on behalf of his good friend and fellow Catholic Al Smith (until then he was a nominal Republican), wangled fat contributions to the Democratic cause, organized the National Committee publicity bureau that helped Franklin Roosevelt win in '32; two years later...
...Ford, Christopher Tietjens, incorruptible paragon, represented "the last English Tory." The implied compliment is one that even the most ardent Tory, in real life, would consider too good to be true. But Parade's End, like many a fine work of fiction, is not intended to be literally true to life. It is first & foremost an artist's dream, always larger than life, more drenched with passion and drama. Often tortuously long, always intensely complicated by the mingling of thought and action, it is likely to be too much of a Kanchenjunga for most readers to struggle...
This turns out to be the high point of a slapdash Technicolored farce that should try the patience of all but the most ardent Hope fans. The film is a cluttered catchall of mossy gags, pratfalls and comedy routines dating back to Mack Sennett and before. Hope is still the fumbling poltroon, this time a ham actor who masquerades as a gentleman's gentleman in England, then becomes a real valet masquerading in the Wild West as a British earl. He caricatures snobbery and braggadocio, unfailingly spills tea trays all over an English hostess, unwittingly courts death...