Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explosion. The Boston papers have made a start in publicizing the A B C's of air raid defense. It is a subject that cannot be over-publicized. To be thoroughly effective, it must be put forward in a flood of pamphlets and posters that even the most ardent enemy of publicity notices cannot ignore...
Since then, secessions from the Group have landslided in Britain. Example: Sir Patrick Joseph Henry Hannon, industrialist, member of Parliament, ardent Group sympathizer. Last week Sir Patrick derided Buchmanite claims to have settled three impending work stoppages in the Midlands by urging Buchmanite principles on management and labor. Sir Patrick investigated, decided that the trouble had been cured by "sordid means like better pay and better hours...
Pithy and popular is Australian-born Lord Atkin, ardent Welshman by adoption, one of Parliament's five "law lords" (who act as a sort of supreme court, reviewing cases on points of national importance carried from the Court of Appeal). Lord Atkin is noted for his liberalism regarding divorce legislation. He once attacked a proposed bill to make divorce impossible until after five years of marriage, citing the case of a soldier whose wife had deceived him. Said Lord Atkin: "It seems to me a monstrous thing that that man should not have been entitled to be freed from...
When the 1913 Armory Show gave the U.S. its first real taste of revolutionary European painting, Katherine Dreier was converted from an ardent suffragist into the most ardent U.S. booster of artistic revolution. A mediocre painter herself, she traipsed massively through the ateliers and studios of Paris encouraging, propagandizing, buying. With famed French Painter Marcel Duchamp (Nude Descending the Stairs} and U.S. Abstract Photographer Man Ray, she formed the Socieété Anonyme, first society for collecting and spreading modern art in the U.S., started her tremendous collection under its name. Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
Through his friendship with Bryan, Editor Daniels met Woodrow Wilson, became his devoted follower. When Wilson moved into the White House, Josephus Daniels became Secretary of the Navy. An ardent Dry, he prohibited liquor on board Navy ships. He outraged officers by shaking hands with seamen. He tried to make sailors wear pajamas. In his black string tie and his flat-brimmed, North Carolina planter's hat, he was a walking affront to the ramrod dignity of the admirals...