Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ardent, assiduous Douglas Naylor of Pittsburgh's Press chose Marsha, a head of a saucer-eyed Negro child rendered in a distantly Renoir manner by Ohio-born Clarence Carter...
Born in Turkey of Greek parents, Dr. Kyrides came to the U.S. as a youngster, worked his way through the University of Michigan, has devoted himself to two great passions. The other one is ballroom dancing, at which he proved so ardent and proficient a student that he was invited to become a professional. A shyly affectionate man, he often turns up in the laboratory with chocolate bars for his assistants. Sometimes, walking in the street with a friend, he darts into a store, emerges with a bag of peanuts and silently hands it to his companion...
With money supplied by relatives they bought liquor, which they smuggled into their quarters. Frequently they went AWOL and roamed the nearby towns, making ardent and often successful love to local girls. Two towns had barred them. Citizens of another town had one waylaid and thrashed a group of them...
...plot is complex at first glance; but it really doesn't amount to much. Betty Hutton starts out as twin sisters; one who is an ardent Bing Crosby fan, and the other who thinks him an annoying crooner. Bing, as a sobbing singer--genus Sinatraensis--falls for the twin who will have none of him. In the course of action the Waves get both Betty Huttons, Bing gets the sensible sister, and the bobby-sock twin gets left with Sonny Tufts, who doesn't seem to care...
...Manhattan's Church of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie. In the audience was Barbara Young, who then was working in a bookstore in the Brevoort Hotel, has had a poem published in the New York Times almost every week since 1922. She became the most ardent Gibran follower and at his death in 1931, his literary executor. This Man from Lebanon, her memorial volume to the Master, suffers from its hushed reverence before Kahlil Gibran's slightest words and actions...