Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brill's recently reconnected telephone rang incessantly all morning with pleas from ardent suitresses asking "Lewellyn darling" to tear himself away from his study of Elizabethan music for a few hours in the afternoon...
...spends eight hours daily on research both at home and in the Widener Library. "I can't stop working," he explained. "I hope to live to complete the notes and editing on the entire list of plays--and I see no reason why I shouldn't." He is an ardent student of Shakespeare and his formula for understanding the-dramatist is to "read him and find out what he says...
Bearded Zdansky was a pioneer in modern skiing technique. According to the Widener exhibit he invented the Lilienfeld binding, which is allegedly the first efficient harness. Zdansky, moreover, was an ardent exponent of the Alpine School, which came to blows more than once with the Norwegian school. At the turn of the century the dispute between the two schools was partially mitigated by a mutual acceptance of the telemark and the open christiania as the only proper turns. A photograph of the Kandahar race of 1930 shows innumerable different schools, all acceptable...
...telephone books. In its brief span on the air (since Sept. 26), Pot o' Gold has handed out $20,000 to stay-at-homes from Massachusetts to California, has almost tripled its audience to a hopeful 15,000,000 or so. Despite the enormous odds against winning, some ardent rainbow-chasers do no telephoning while Pot o' Gold is on the air (to avoid busy signals). Many who venture out during the program prudently leave someone at home by the phone, just in case. And many telephone subscribers who previously had unlisted phones now have their names listed...
This columnist has been catching sundry buffets from some of the schools' more ardent dance fans because of his claim that Artie Shaw's retirement from the dance business was due to more than a desire for philosophical peace and tranquility; that in fact it was a rather hasty exodus. We have quite plainly thought that Artie was at times more than a little queer in his actions...