Word: ardently
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Patriots (by Sidney Kingsley; produced by The Playwrights' Company and Rowland Stebbins) dramatizes the historic struggle between Jefferson and Hamilton-and does it vividly enough for Jefferson's ardent democracy (TIME, Feb. 1) to shimmer in the present as well as shine from the past. Covering the ten fateful years between 1790 and 1800-when the naked, squalling infant republic had no pacifier but a weary, aging George Washington-The Patriots shows his fervent Secretary of State and his fiery Secretary of the Treasury leaping at each other's throats in their completely opposed efforts to save...
This is to express appreciation, on the part of an ardent alumnus, for the very fine article on The Citadel [TIME...
Patricia Strauss (Bevin & Co., TIME, July 7, 1941) might well have taken these words as the starting point for her valuable, fact-filled, respectful biography of Cripps. Long a worker within the British Labor Party and the wife of an ardent Crippsian (G. R. Strauss, Labor M.P. for North Lambeth), Author Strauss tries to show that the very lack of "finesse" and "political acumen" is what has made Cripps the hope of thousands of Englishmen. It is a position, she says, that he would lose only if "they came to suspect, even mistakenly, that he had lost his political naivete...
...with Teddy Wilson's small Cafe Society band. Certainly when a pseudo-jazz program like "Chamber Music of Basin Street" can build up a tremendous following, a little decent jazz ought to get along. The beauty of the Bailey-Wilson combination, especially, is that you needn't be an ardent swing addict to appreciate and enjoy their music...
...invasion of French North Africa was conceived last December, 15 days after Pearl Harbor, when Winston Churchill visited Washington. Mr. Roosevelt thought that North Africa would be the best place for an initial U.S. effort (Churchill: "I was his ardent lieutenant"). Mr. Churchill and his military men agreed in part, but insisted that preparations should be made for invasion there and in Western Europe ("either alternately or simultaneously...