Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Woodrow Wilson was an ardent theatregoer. Franklin Roosevelt prefers to have movies in the White House, but one evening last week he dressed up and went out to see Walter Huston and Fay Bainter in Dodsworth. It was his second visit to the theatre since March...
...ardent researcher badgered his publishers until Kreisler cabled his confession from Vienna. He wrote most of his so-called classical music 30 years ago when he felt the need of enlarging his repertoire and deduced that it would be "inexpedient and tactless to repeat my name endlessly on programs...
Even the most ardent partisans of concentration admit that college cannot and should not be a vocational school. While specialization in one field is desirable for those who have dominant interests, it is folly to assume that all students are naturally specialists. The combination of History and Literature is a happy augury. To satisfy an increasingly vocal demand, more generalized and inclusive fields in the humanities and in science should be provided...
Taking as its theme the tragic story of the "Demi-Soldes." or half-pensioned soldiers of Napoleon, in the years after the Bourbon Restoration, the French Film, "L'Agenie des Aigles" is a credible historical document. These soldiers who in a changed France have nothing left but their ardent admiration of L'Empereur try to bring about a return of the grand age by attempting to seat L'Aiglon, the young son of Napoleon, on the throne of his father. Although they fail in the attempt, their remarkable loyalty and indomitable courage is faithfully reproduced in this picture. Perhaps...
...office boy. There he helped build up the radio station WOR, annotated its Philharmonic Orchestra broadcasts, became publicity and sales director at 25. Now only 32, he is a close adviser of New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, who offered him a post as Commissioner of Markets. An ardent exponent of the Nazi boycott, he is one of the youngest and smartest first-flight merchandising executives in the smartest merchandising city in the land...