Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what Mr. Irwin has done with their favorite little tricks. The astute reporter, amateur detective par excellence, successfully makes a dummy out of Sergeant Kellius of the Rome police. The villain becomes the hero, the hero becomes the villain, the love affair is consummated prettily, in fact the ardent detective story reader, if he choose to take this seriously, can find no faults with the orthodoxy of the technique. But the reader who thumbs the pages from a previously experienced appreciation of Mr. Irwin as a humorist will find the greatest value in the book...
...German Supreme Court, emasculated and shoved into the background by Adolf Hitler's creation of a "supremer" People's Court (TIME, May 14, 1934 et seq.), last week was reduced to trying a petty divorce case. The husband, an ardent Nazi, accused his wife of disliking Adolf Hitler. She retorted through her lawyers that disliking Adolf Hitler and saying so to one's own husband is not grounds for divorce, appealed the suit to higher & higher courts which sustained the Nazi husband every time. Last week the German Supreme Court gave the Hitlerish husband his freedom, established...
...sternly sent away. In 1714 the school stood on what is now the lawn of Boston's City Hall and Benjamin Franklin was a pupil. In the years before the Revolution its Master was a Loyalist named John Lovell, who had the task of making such ardent young Revolutionists as John Hancock, Samuel Adams, William Hooper and Robert Treat Paine mind their Cicero...
...concluded France, "that is equivalent to abolishing the whole idea of contract and obligation. . . . There would soon be no room for any policy but one, force." Within 24 hours Germany had put enough pressure on the all but defenseless Scandinavian countries to transform their Foreign Ministers at Geneva into ardent lobbyists against any Council action which might impute even blame to Germany. Meanwhile Swiss defectives claimed to have unmasked a plot to assassinate the Foreign Ministers of France, Czechoslovakia and Rumania who are known to have busied themselves in recent weeks over the draft text of a virtual military alliance...
...Walter was nine. His father was greatly respected as conductor of the Breslau Orchesterverein. As his friends and often as his guests the elder Damrosch had such great musicians as Liszt, Wagner, von Bulow, Joachim, Auer, Rubinstein. In Manhattan he quickly established himself as Wagner's most ardent champion. He founded the New York Oratorio Society, then the New York Symphony. In 1884 he gave the fashionable new Metropolitan its first taste of German opera. Death came before he could finish the season...