Word: ardors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first book in a series entitled "Life and Art in Photographs," and if all the succeeding volumes are as good as this, one hopes that the series will cease only at the crack o' doom. Such praise is excessive, to be sure, but it is with genuine ardor that one turns these pages in search of reproductions of his favorites. It will serve no purpose to quarrel with Mr. Wickham over his omissions, which were necessary if the book was not to become fat like the volumes of van Marle. You will find Titian's "Charles V," and you will...
...doctors and engineers, trained in American colleges, have settled in Abyssinia since I cut the path," said Col. Julian. "To the news of Italy's aggression my instinctive reaction was at once to take off for Abyssinia in my black Bellanca plane (see cut). However, I restrained my ardor whilst assembling some combat and bombing equipment which I will take with me by ship to Aden, thence flying the planes to Addis Ababa...
Publisher. By ardor and consistency Publisher William Randolph Hearst has proved his right to the title of No. 1 U. S. isolationist. He has maintained his single-minded foreign policy unbroken since the days when he sacrificed prestige, profits and popularity to oppose U. S. entry in the War even after that entry was an accomplished fact. When President Roosevelt's message revived the World Court issue old (71) Publisher Hearst, on his lordly ranch at San Simeon, Calif., tossed his long, horsey head and charged. Hearst editorial columns throughout the land shrilled and thundered with the threat...
Conductor Artur Rodzinski, who obtained the first U. S. rights to Lady Macbeth, heard it six times in Russia last summer. Last week he called it "one of the most important contributions to music brought out in the past 25 years." The ardor of his performance proved that he meant what he had said...
...general crusading ardor of the "war to end war" there were few who believed war as such wholly wrong. There were fewer still who had enough faith in principle to refuse to fight in the face of the bitter and contemptuous accusations of disloyalty and cowardice heaped upon them by the public and friends alike. If war comes again, there will be a greater number of resisters than in 1917. But what influence will they have? How many will stand firm in the face of the obloquy they are almost certain to have to endure? The answer depends upon...