Word: ardently
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
William Henry Chamberlin is a scholarly author whose twelve years (1922-34) as the Christian Science Monitor's Moscow correspondent changed him from an ardent admirer of Communism into a disillusioned critic (Collectivism-A False Utopia). This week, writing in Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram, he gave his verdict on the significance of the Browder-Hillman campaign for Term IV, Said...
Minnesota's ardent internationalist Joe Ball said: "We can't fiddle around. . . . Time is short. I urge all Americans . . . to insist upon clear, unequivocal answers . . . from Presidential and Congressional nominees. Safe, easy generalities . . . are not enough...
...correspondents pondered, and wrote tons of newsprint about this new and, to them, strange kind of campaign. Not even Dewey's most ardent admirers pretended that he ever showed a superabundance of warmth, or relaxed in backslapping informality. His deportment was precise and correct, at times even chill...
...night last week the telephone jangled in the big colonial Governor's mansion on the hilltop at Austin, Tex. The White House was calling Governor Stevenson. This was a rare occasion. Tall, leathery Coke Stevenson is no ardent New Dealer...
...Most ardent chronicler of the Bennett case was the late Alexander Woollcott. Some years after the trial, he dug up a possibly apocryphal footnote. Mrs. Bennett was again playing bridge. This time her partner, a young man unacquainted with her past, overbid. As he laid down his hand, he casually murmured: "Partner, I'm afraid you'll want to shoot me for this." Commented Woollcott: "Mrs. Bennett had the good taste to faint...