Word: ardor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Even in those days," declared Mr. Suma, "I felt Mr. Wang's patriotic ardor, his zeal to construct a rejuvenated China. You know, he is quite a drinker, although you wouldn't take him for one. He could take it all right. I think it was in the summer of 1931, when he established a National Government in Canton against Chiang Kaishek, [that] I presented him with a cask of Akita sake (rice wine) from my native province and we drank together one night at his house in Tung-shan [suburb of Canton]. He drank sake, cold, from...
...Farm. The French farm woman, with her tucked up black skirts, her sabots and her head cloth, has always worked hard at home and in her husband's fields. With husbands, sons, uncles, brothers called up. she now works ever harder. Paradoxically, the measure of her ardor has been the extent of her failure...
...ardor of many a 1940 Presidential aspirant might well be chilled by a glance at the following obituary record: every President elected at 20-year intervals since 1840-Harrison, Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Harding-has died in office...
...Thief is still Raffles (David Niven*), cricketer and second-story man, whose faulty sense of property rights is corrected by a great love (Olivia de Havilland). In the first Goldwyn version, Ronald Colman played Raffles with ardor. David Niven plays the part with crookish cunning. But Niven's cunning is no match for Scotland Yard in the person of Dudley Digges. As canny, candy-munching In spector Mackenzie, Actor Digges, who can lift a scene with less effort than Raffles steals a necklace, pilfers most of the picture. What he leaves is filched by Dame May Whitty (the lady...