Word: avidity
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...Ruby the Barber is one very interesting guy. An avid follower of the bang tales, Ruby has, through the years, developed an amazing insight into the general sporting picture. He was, at one time, a tonsorial expert at a small parlor in The Big Town and in his day he has hobnobbed with many of the laudable figures in the world of athletics...
...have one quibble with the Lampoon which concerns a story titled "O.D. Christmas," signed by one "CBW." There is no CBW visible on the 'Poon's masthead these days, but avid followers of the magazine like myself will remember a Clement B. Wood who enhanced the magazine's pages in the Good Old Days of '47, '48, and '49. Perhaps he has sent in some new material to revive a lagging Lamphoom, but I doubt it. If the story is a re-print, and I rather think it is, the Lamphoom has an obligation to its readers to so identify...
...narrow, pale, somewhat dead face, which is not. however, insensitive. Standing or sitting, he holds himself watchfully, easily erect, with great dignity, conscious of who he is. He is well educated, by the standards of his profession, and an avid reader...
...visit to Paris, the Ago Khan said that he was still hard at work on his forthcoming memoirs, "which will sweep away all these legends about me." Some of the sweepings: "The richest man in the world is the Nizam of Hyderabad, not me. He is also the most avid miser. He has a swimming pool full of diamonds . . . The story that I bottle my bathtub water and sell it to the faithful is utter rubbish . . . Horses are a passion with me. I have just had the best racing season of my life. In England alone...
...Hutchinson, Kans. might have had the Mona Lisa on exhibit last week. "They want to keep looking," said the librarian happily. "We have to shoo them out." The big attraction at the library's annual all-Kansas art show: one of the first U.S. exhibits of an avid Sunday painter and onetime Kansas boy. His name: Dwight D. Eisenhower. On opening day, 1,500 people flooded the library's tiny gallery; by week's end, 3,500 more had come to see how Ike paints...