Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have their group photograph taken last week the militant galaxy took their places on the steps of Kuomintang Party Headquarters with Dictator Chiang, Dummy President Lin Sen and Premier Wang Ching-wei. Among Chinese politicians the Premier rated last week as the most ardent and ablest exponent of the kite & string foreign policy for China and he was not only Premier but also Foreign Minister...
...death of his grandfather, the late great Menelik II, Lij Yasu seized the throne of Ethiopia, won a grudging allegiance from the most important Rases. Almost immediately he got into difficulties. None too ardent a Christian, he attempted to bolster his reign by organizing a federation of tributary Mohammedan States. He promptly found himself excommunicated by the Coptic Church, and shortly thereafter pushed from the throne by his aunt, Zauditu (Judith) with the aid of his cousin, wily Ras Tafari, the present Haile Selassie...
...outnumbered three to one by excited modernists" and lion-hunting socialites, because M. Jeanneret, 47, better known under his professional name of Le Corbusier, has had more effect than any living man on the development of modern architecture, and has become the patron saint of a whole school of ardent practitioners who write tomes on the subject of Corbusierismus...
Fact was, George II and the Greek people have no ardent love for one another. George, who is the protege and frequent houseguest of Britain's King-Emperor George V, seemed especially dubious of the invitation of General Kondylis, who is an open admirer of Benito Mussolini. In London the King's aide told newshawks that everything was still uncertain and in Athens Regent Kondylis replied that, if George refused to return, he would find another King...
...were distinguished for nothing else, Adventure would stand apart from rival "pulps" because its Assistant Editor used to be Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair Lewis; because it was once entirely illustrated by Rockwell Kent; because one of its most ardent readers was Roosevelt I; because it was the first national magazine to print the works of Pulitzer Prizewinner Thomas Sigismund Stribling. Last week Adventure celebrated its first quarter-century by publishing a special anniversary issue of 176 pages...