Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the Allies, he proclaimed a state of war, placed the occupied sections of Norway under a Reich Commissar, and assigned Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo the task of "pacifying" the country. To exercise supreme Government authority in Norway, Hitler sent to Oslo one of his youngest and most ardent disciples, 42-year-old Josef Terboven, Gauleiter of Essen, publisher of Field Marshal Hermann Goring's Essener National-Zeitung, a Jew-hater and energetic protagonist of the Nazi Herrenvolk (ruling caste) ideology...
...recording of the Schubert "Unfinished" Symphony yesterday, as done by Bruno Walter and the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra and found it worth three dollars of anybody's money. It is almost as well rendered as the Koussevitsky-Boston Symphony of the same--and sells for half the price. Six ardent classical collectors who played the album reached the same verdict, and I quite frankly don't think that the majority of record buyers in this country, both old and new, are going to pay double for slight improvements in recording...
...everybody who might have helped her: an awed Alexander Woollcott likened her to "a sinking ship firing on its rescuers." Though Stella Campbell published many of Shaw's letters to her, she did not publish all. Years ago the middle-aging philanderer, alarmed by the number of his ardent avowals that had got into print, put his foot down, reportedly cabled her, "I won't play horse to your Lady Godiva...
Fifteen years later, in Caney Valley, a 16-mile-long, rock-rimmed gorge, seven miles from Hindman, Mountaineer Humpty Joab spoke a similar piece. The woman who heard him was Mrs. Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd, Boston socialite, author, magazine writer, newspaper editor, ardent suffragette and freethinker. She had fled to Knott County to get over a nervous breakdown. And she got over it. She stayed on, with $10 cash founded Caney Creek Community Center on Humpty 's 153 barren acres...
Last week in Chattanooga, Tennessee's third city, after many a postponement a new daily was born: George Fort Milton's evening Tribune. In Washington the Tribune was news because it brought Publisher Milton, an ardent New Dealer, back from unwilling retirement. In Chattanooga the Tribune was news because it revived a newspaper feud of some 16 years' standing...