Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later the brash Colonel showed up as the head of a formidable outfit which looked much like Hitler's Elite Guard-the Japan Youth Party, claiming 100,000 ardent members. Its flag, a white sun against a red ball, symbolized "bloodred patriotism under a white-hot sun." The commander of this private army boasted: "Watch me, Hashimoto. I am no man to sit still and talk...
...Last week the Chicago Opera was in the middle of its six-week season. This year's new angel and ardent publicizer: Publisher Robert ("Bertie") McCormick of the Tribune. There were other novel ties. A chorus whose average age was 25 tickled Chicago eyes as well as ears. The Ballet Theatre, which earned huzzahs at its Manhattan debut last year, joined forces with the singers. Last fortnight a performance of Carmen got columns of publicity: in the last act 18 Chicago cops, led by Chief of Traffic Captain David Flynn, took turns appearing as Spanish dragoons riding nine police...
...lacks the crotchety personal stamp of Founder Thomas, no longer carries temperance articles (with pictures of a sinister nurse mixing gin with the milk to pacify the baby), the Old Farmer has better than 100,000 subscribers (mostly New Englanders), from Bangor, Me. to Hong Kong. These ardent readers feared that the Old Farmer's 1940 issue would be its last. After the death of its fourth copyright owner, Bostonian Carroll J. Swan, in 1935, Little, Brown & Co. agreed to publish the almanac for five years. Its contract ended with the 148th edition. But this week the 149th...
...absentee ballot about ten days before. Reporters had trouble finding him on election evening. He was having dinner with his campaign tour manager and former assistant in the Department of Agriculture, tall, thin, monosyllabic James Le Cron (whose wife is a sister of John and Gardner Cowles, Midwest publishers, ardent Willkie backers both). Unruffled as ever, the man who was certain to have a big-perhaps unprecedentedly big-assignment in the new administration sat before the radio, listened, finally unbent, told reporters he was gratified. When the returns indicated a big electoral majority Henry Wallace, no celebrater, went home...
...ardent believer in boys. Henry Ford discovered Robert Boyer in 1925 while visiting Ford's Wayside Inn, managed by the boy's father. Earl Joseph Boyer. Attracted by Robert's active interest in what made the world go round. Ford took him out of the Framingham High School (near Boston), where he was a hockey and baseball addict, "B" chemistry student, later enrolled him in the Ford Trade School...