Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...polls to elect a Parliament of unity, moderation, stability. Most extremist parties lost seats while the moderate Liberals and Catholics gained. Socialists lost more than a quarter of their strength, and the fascist Rexists were almost completely wiped out. Even Eupen, Malmédy and Saint Vith, supposedly ardent pro-Nazi districts nearest Germany, voted 55% nationalist and anti-German...
...present Maharaja's father, Tukoji Rao III, once fell in love with a nautch-girl named Mumtaz Begum. So ardent was Tukoji Rao III that Mumtaz Begum wearied of him and fled to Bombay, where one Bawla took her under his wealthy wing. Tukoji Rao III was furious. One day when Bawla and Mumtaz Begum were out driving, a band of thugs hired by the Maharaja set upon them, stabbed Bawla to death, were only prevented from killing Mumtaz Begum by a group of Englishmen returning from a go of golf, armed with drivers, mashies, putters. In the ensuing...
...ardent yachtsman like his idol, J. P. Morgan Sr., Pliny Fisk in 1919 visited Tangier on his 33-ft. Riviera. He always believed afterwards that it was there he caught sleeping sickness. He eventually recovered, but not before he "lost control of things." He quit Harvey Fisk & Sons, sold his Exchange seat for $55,000. Faulty judgment slowly took his millions. In 1924 he sold the Riviera and his $500,000 house in Rye. He dropped out of his clubs-the Union League, Metropolitan, University, New York Yacht...
Shortly before she left Germany, she received a visit from two Hitler Youths, ardent Nazis of the year before. They said they wanted to ski over into Czechoslovakia. Pumped for their reason, 16-year-old Otto said: "I'll now quote Herr Abraham Lincoln: 'You can fool all the people some of the time,' " etc. Later that day Otto smashed the teeth of another Hitler Youth he caught baiting an old Jewish woman, got a warm handshake from the Nazi cop who rushed him to a quiet side street, told him to scram...
...ever want $10 that bad again just let us know an we'll send it to keep you from becoming constipated," wrote one of Lothrop (goldfish-eater) Withington's more ardent correspondents yesterday...