Word: avidity
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...Foss of Illinois; in the Bureau of Education; in the horticultural board of the Department of Agriculture; as a researcher in the State Department. Following a few sporadic efforts at magazine writing and editing she joined the Donenfelds in 1929. Her 18-year-old daughter, she says, is an avid reader of La Paree, et al. "It is the most interesting form of journalism," believes Editrix Hersey. "It gets you so close to people. They write in and tell us we help them escape inhibitions...
...armed Jose Clemente Orozco long in the presence of large undecorated wall spaces. Artist Orozco, whose jutting jaw and glittering glasses make him look not unlike an ecstatic bullfrog, is, like his friend and compatriot Diego Rivera, one of the most important mural painters in the Americas, an avid reviver of the art of true fresco. Few months ago he lectured before Dartmouth College's Department of Art. Dartmouth's chief pride is a new Georgian library, gift of the late George Fisher Baker. It has nice new walls that made Muralist Orozco's fingers itch...
Throughout the United States, those twin devils, absinthe and obscenity, have raised problems, and they have been solved: Capone had an organization; Congress has an organization; even the Watch and Ward has an organization, but Harvard lags behind. Western Universities, with avid maliciousness, watching and waiting, have at last located the flaw in Eastern culture, and have published their discovery. Harvard has received the first attack...
...stolen nothing, though fearing robbery Mrs. Collings had hidden her rings in small Barbara's shoes. The Collingses led a secluded life, had no enemies, were happy. Mr. Collings' income had dwindled to about $1,000 a year. He had no insurance. The Collingses were avid readers of detective stories. Long Island detectives remained baffled by their case; Inventor Collings remained missing...
Life's words of plaint were really spoken from the heart. For in no club is to be found a more avid player than Life's President Clair Maxwell. His scores are more often in the 70's than in the 90's, but he knows how poorer players feel. Just as enthusiastic are his brothers-Lee, president of Crowell Publishing Co.; Ray G., advertising agent, and Lloyd, of Williams & Cunnyngham agency, Chicago. The four Brothers Maxwell have a standing challenge to any other foursome of one family, or any foursome of the publishing business. Life...