Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finished a survey of political races in New England and New York. As always, t her copy twinkled brightly in the Star (circ. 266,414). In her home town of Boston, she watched the pols stand "cigar-to-cigar" to cheer Mr. Truman; in New York she noted that ardent Campaigner Nelson Rockefeller "plunges into a crowd as into a warm bath," and referred to Rockefeller and Governor Averell Harriman as "two millionaires tramping the streets begging for work." Reading her stories. Political Reporter Carroll Kilpatrick of the rival Washington Post and Times Herald wired Mary: IN THE INTEREST...
Crocodiles & Tourists. Though an ardent supporter of Catholic Action and the Demo-Christian Party, Cardinal Roncalli won the admiration of many a Venetian leftist for his progressive outlook. He shocked conservatives by proposing that some marble panels be removed from the interior of St. Mark's to give worshipers a better view, but he was dead against a proposal to set up gambling facilities in St. Mark's Square. Once he aimed a shaft of wit at the scantily clad tourists who swarm the city in the summertime: "People need not come to Italy in furs or woollens...
Though he was an ardent baseball fan, Cardinal Mooney's own game was golf, which he used to shoot in the low 80s. Said he to one of his priests: "If your score is over 100, you are neglecting your golf-if it falls below 90, you're neglecting your parish...
Still, there was an ingenuous purity to anything touched by the spiritually ardent when the spiritually ardent are blessed with an absence of vulgarity. The founders of the Massachusetts Commonwealth were so blessed and their architectural legacy is one of an austere and untainted beauty. Their creations were above all functional...
Running his real estate business in the mornings, his theater productions in the afternoons and evenings (he reads about 200 scripts a year), Stevens still finds time to raise funds for the Democratic National Committee. He is an ardent Adlai Stevenson backer and gives him a good chance to win the 1960 nomination. But if he should be offered a Washington job, Stevens is certain he will turn it down: "In Washington you have to work your tail off all the time. You don't even dare take a drink down there...