Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Panofsky hobbies: dogs, movies. Panofsky was an ardent cinemaddict long before it became fashionable for intellectuals to take movies seriously, wrote learned papers about films for the Princeton art and archaeology department Bulletin, and the defunct, advance-guard expatriate quarterly transition. For a rest after completing his monumental job on Dürer, Panofsky retired to his Kennebunkport retreat, where he spends much time with his friend and neighbor, Art Collector Booth Tarkington...
...Last Effort. Out of the caterpillar of war, through the cocoon of Versailles, was hatched that beautiful butterfly, the League of Nations. Ardent apologists for the League-which still exists in form and largely in exile-insist that its prime purpose was not to stop wars once they had reached or passed the boiling point, but rather to promote international cooperation. "A place for talk" is the way League-loving Sir John Fischer Williams describes...
...Marignys were divorced one day in Miami to evade British wartime monetary restrictions, but continued to share the same post-office box and telephone number in Nassau. It was there that Nancy first saw the Count, first knew he had noticed her. Later he came north on business, paid ardent court and persuaded her to marry...
Sensational as the effects of the Kenny treatment have been, it never succeeds in cases of actual nerve destruction. But Dr. Miland Knapp of Minneapolis, ardent Kenny advocate, has recently raised a new hope. He found that use of the drug prostigmine together with the Kenny method hastened recovery by reduction of muscle spasm and incoordination. Dr. Russell Plato Schwartz of Rochester, N.Y., has had unusual success in preliminary trials with a new drug extracted from the South American erythrina bean...
Inventing hobbies of great men is an other O'Nolan pastime. Ardent biographers of the composer Handel were surprised to learn that their idol was such a close student of Parisian slang that he had written an authoritative work on the subject: Handel's L' Argot...