Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funny, 2) rather silly, 3) crazy but dull. It concerns itself with the predicaments and escapes of a young man who seems to have a perpetual case of the jitters (Charles Ruggles). Engaged to marry a debutante with a dignified mother, he is pursued with kindly intent by an ardent blonde (Tamara Geva), later, with less kindly intent, by her gangster husband. To escape the gangster, the young man tries to get himself jailed, succeeds in going to the same jail as the gangster. Here he finds the warden guilty of crooked bookkeeping, is later discovered, by his fiancee...
Even the most ardent U. S. devotees of tennis have had a hard time keeping things straight for the last three or four years. Before that, William Tatem Tilden II and William Johnston were the two great U. S. players. A grade below were other famous names, easily distinguishable from each other-Richard Norris Williams II, the most brilliant half-volleyer in history, Wallace Johnson, a sporting-goods salesman who seemed always trying to compensate for his plebeian occupation by the languidly patrician gestures of his chop-strokes, Vincent Richards, who remained almost perpetually the boy wonder...
...site.* Last week in Washington steps were taken to fix the moral tone of Boulder City, make it a "model town." Appointed by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur to manage the land leasing on this government reservation was Louis C. Cramton, onetime (1913-31) Michigan Congressman, ardent Prohibitor. At Boulder City, Mr. Cramton announced, only two competing businesses of the same type would be permitted, and leases would be granted only on "character, personal fitness, personality, age, physical condition, financial and service fitness, training and experience." Only U. S. citizens may do business at Boulder City. Business lots will rent...
Oldest Mayor Gray also had something to say. He bridled when Mrs. Gray, ardent W. C. T. U. supporter, told newshawks: "Liquor is wicked in itself, and the source of most of the world's wickedness." Said her husband: "Oh, don't listen to her. She's not just a Dry, she's a Prohibition crank. Prohibition will never work, in my opinion." He is proud that little Pasco has not had a murder in 30 years...
...Masculine athletics enjoy the ardent patronage of His Holiness, a notable mountain climber when younger...