Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moral fiber but something rather inexplicable has happened in Adams House. Blame seems to fall on the Dining Hall which for so long brightened the faces of the W.C.T.U. with its refusals to serve beer. It has apparently not only completely reversed its stand now but has become an ardent wet supporter...
...failed in his examinations for the diplomatic service only to become one of Japan's most effective Foreign Ministers. He was born in Fukuoka on the island of Kyushu 56 years ago. Kyushu is as solidly conservative as Maine. As a sober little schoolboy Koki Hirota was an ardent member of a super-nationalist secret society known as the Genyosha or Black Sea Society. Its leader, Mitsuru Toyama, now 78, is still politically active, head of the far more formidable Black Dragon Society whose members for the most part are not schoolboys but army officers. Koki Hirota is still...
...delegation out of the League of Nations. Koki Hirota was popped into the office before most Japanese militarists realized what was brewing. Conspirators Saito and Saionjii knew that fundamentally Minister Hirota is as ardent a nationalist as any Black Dragon could wish, but they hoped & prayed that his long service in the diplomatic corps would make him more discreet and softspoken. Minister Hirota's method of being discreet and soft-spoken while carrying on Japan's policy of expansion is to supply the words and let anonymous spokesmen voice them. Last week excitable Tokyo papers were demanding...
ALTHOUGH the local color school of American literature went out of style many years ago after a comparatively short, but exceedingly prolific career, occasional books written on particular sections of the United States by author who still remain ardent followers of the school occasionally do appear. According it Granville Hicks such writers were not a true part of America's Great Tradition, but nevertheless it cannot be denied that they contribute an extremely essential section to the composition of American Literature...
...action of the play centers about Prosper, the keeper of an 18th-century night club, a former theatre-director, and now an ardent revolutionist, who entertains his noble patrons with short criminal sketches, in which fact and fiction are indissolubly intertwined. As the news of the fall of the Bastille arrives, all the players throw off their disguises and give vent to their true feelings. The high point of the play is reached in the murder of Duke Emile, bringing to a climax a train of intrigue so typical of the spirit of that...