Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those hardy few who stayed through until the second feature were amply rewarded by the usual volume of Red Skelton's antics and prat-falls. Unable to satisfy any but the most ardent fan by sheer weight of pantomime and well-timed gags, M.G.M. has wisely injected a bit of pathos into the comedy. Cast as a well-meaning, but deadly boor, Red Skelton takes "The Showoff" through a series of heart breaking mishaps with amazing dexterity and an almost embarrassing reality. A living portrait of the guy who would break his leg while putting on a hat, Skelton uses...
Author Elliott Roosevelt (As He Saw It) had himself a week. On radio's Meet the Press program, two of the men picked to pick on him were Henry J. Taylor and Fulton Lewis Jr., ardent haters of all-things-Roosevelt. Radio listeners heard the preliminary growling and snapping. Tabloid readers got in on the finish...
...Congress as illegal. The delegates rose and screamed: "Degenerate son!" But Matteotti doggedly finished his job, handed the presiding officer what he called documentation proving Nenni's terroristic methods, and calmly walked off the platform and out of the Congress. With him, the whole Iniziativa Socialista bloc of ardent young Trotskyites bolted the party...
...hybrid Progressive Citizens of America (TIME, Jan. 6). In Washington last week 150-odd intellectuals, labor leaders and New Deal disciples got together to form a new organization of their own. They had been called together by the Union for Democratic Action, a militant pressure group of ardent "liberals...
...onetime St. Paul newspaper man, friend of Harold Stassen, and an ardent internationalist, Joe Ball has been called a liberal. In 1944 he crossed party lines to support Franklin Roosevelt against Tom Dewey. But since then, organized labor has soured on him. Ball's belief in the individual does not jibe with labor's belief in the union. He has made it clear that he thinks organized labor has gained too much power...