Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editor Cudlipp has steered a cautious course between the conflicting demands of popular taste and party tactics. Today the Herald prints very few stories of sex and adventure but more than ardent Laborites think it should; it also prints more stories about Labor and the trade unions than readers of the rival Daily Mail and Express want to labor through. Though duller than its Fleet Street rivals, the Herald is London's third largest daily paper, and the only one which steadily supports Labor...
...covered wagon. A lot of the hallooing after Harry Truman's scalp came from men who simply enjoyed listening to the echo, but last week the President heard one statement which hurt. Alabama's Senator John J. Sparkman, former Democratic whip of the House, and hitherto an ardent Truman supporter, demanded that the President remove himself as a candidate...
Hart Crane's mother (he was the only child) divorced her husband, had a nervous breakdown, became an ardent Christian Scientist, exhausted herself working in an antique shop, tried unsuccessfully to compel her son to go to college. His friends were the few emancipated spirits who congregated around Herbert Fletcher's bookshop in Akron, and later the New York and expatriate intellectuals who contributed to the little magazines...
Mammon v. Music. Rodzinski, who is always surprising people with ecstatic references to his art and to his God (he is an ardent Buchmanite) had bumped head-on into mammon again. In spite of his unpredictable ways, many Chicagoans rushed to his defense last week. Their feeling was that maybe Rodzinski had thrown a little money around, but he had built the orchestra again into a first-rate symphony, using the same old hands (only the piano player and the first horn were new). He had given Chicagoans the finest opera they had heard in years: a concert version...
...conclusions," observed U.S. Communist Party Boss William Zebulon Foster. It was his reply to the New York Herald Tribune's question: Had he ever as party head differed with statements from Russia? Other questions & answers: Is the party loyal to the U.S. Constitution? "Yes. Our party is an ardent defender of the limited democracy that we have. . . ."Does the party advocate forcible overthrow of the Government? "The danger of violence . . . always comes from reactionary elements...