Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incumbent, Sir William Llewellyn, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Commander of the Legion of Honor, recipient of the Grand Cross of the Crown of Italy. A painter of Queens, he has produced dozens of slick portraits of Queen Mary for clubs, asylums, other institutions. That ardent water colorist Wilhelmina of The Netherlands is so enamored of his brush that she has made him a Grand Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau. Serious critics prefer to think of Sir William's hobby, which has made him an authority on 18th Century British painting, the sale prices...
...aggression which is to be encircled by this pact! It has been signed in the absence of Germany with regret for her absence and in the hope of her eventual adherence. France has never ceased to desire to draw Germany into the general work of guaranteeing peace. Our most ardent wish is to see the Reich retake her place at Geneva on a footing of absolute equality as a member of the League of Nations...
...grandsons of the founder are in the business, chief executive being John Durant Larkin Jr. His son, Vice President J. Crate Larkin, is a blue-eyed six-footer of 33. A Williams graduate (Class of 1923) he, too, has written a book, From Debts to Prosperity, is an ardent disciple of Britain's Major Clifford Hugh Douglas, high priest of Social Credit. Last week after experimental application of the Douglas theories in his own office, Mr. Larkin announced...
Madariaga, although concerned with international affairs, has never lost his deep-rooted Spanish patriotism. In fact it has been said of him that "He couldn't be so successful in international affairs were he not so ardent a nationalist...
...made the 90-mile trip on foot through country overrun with Boxers who were killing every Christian-Chinese or foreign-they could find. Captured many times, Yao always talked himself out. For his heroism Yao was offered a copper medal and later a reward of 1,000 taels. An ardent Christian, he thought that figure too high, gladly accepted the medal and 500 taels. From the income of this invested reward he still lives happily here on a few dollars a month, spends most of his time with his pet meadow lark, the rest in looking up the few friends...