Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MORE FLAGS-Evelyn Waugh -Little, Brown ($2.50). "I am afraid," writes Evelyn Waugh, in a dedicatory letter to his friend Major Randolph Churchill, "that these pages may not be altogether acceptable to your ardent and sanguine nature. They deal, mostly, with a race of ghosts ... in that odd, dead period before the Churchillian renaissance which people called at the time 'the Great Bore...
...base, too. The 980-mile-long island has four well-equipped major fields, at Diégo-Suarez, Ivato, Fort Berge, Majunga. The island's 35,000 white population has been said by some to be 98% anti-Vichy but its governor for some months has been an ardent Vichy-man who has put De Gaullists in jail...
...special interest not only to the Widener worm, but to all ardent bibliophiles as well, is the exhibition of the 50 Books of the Year now showing in the main lobby of Widener...
Giving this job to Sir Stafford was a popular move on Prime Minister Winston Churchill's part, both at home and in India. Skeptics suggested that his passage to India might have been arranged by the Tory bloc, to rid the British scene of this ardent advocate of aid to Russia and Indian self-government (see p. 44). But there were signs that pointed against such a conclusion...
Died. Prince Amedeo di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, 43, ex-Governor General of Italian East Africa and Viceroy of Ethiopia; of tuberculosis; in Kenya Colony, East Africa. Mussolini's most ardent supporter in the House of Savoy, the tall, slim "Fascist Duke" was believed by many to have been given his African job as grooming for the Italian throne. But in Ethiopia he lost all but 17,000 of his 100,000 troops, surrendered to the British...