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Word: fervently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thoughts more to this side of the Atlantic than to Paris. In this "comedie de boulevards," Mario, an ambitious, if somewhat effeminate peasant, rises from shearing lambikins of the literal sort to those of a figurative sort. One of those who is unfortunate enough to have his most fervent prayers answered, he becomes the most famous hairdresser in Paris, quite neglects his wife (we thought Aline rather a sweet little girl), is society's lion, is preyed upon by all females. So tremendous is his success with his great work and the women, that he is forced to accept...

Author: By H. E. W. r., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/17/1933 | See Source »

...will not pay higher taxes!" boomed a fervent spokesman for the prosperous, bourgeois mobsters. "Let the State abandon its multiple functions!* Taxes must be lowered, not raised. If need be let the State raise money by a lottery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Guillotine Dawn No. 2 | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

...Nash came out $183,000 better than even while General Motors, whose third quarter ends in September, showed a $4,400,000 loss. Chairman Nash works no less now that he is chairman; most Nash papers pass over his pinewood desk. He is a mighty hunter, a fervent fisherman, a famed cook. These and other chiefs, the Royal Family of the Industry, were proud of their changing wares last week. For while their kingdom has reached maturity and stability there is one change that has never changed-the continual approach to cheaper and better transportation. And prouder than the Royal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: All Change! | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

Ready to join dog-owners in fervent gratitude to the Field Council and its researchers is many a fur-breeder. Distemper has often wiped out stocks of silver fox, ferret, fitch, mink, fisher. Preliminary experiments indicate that the Laidlaw-Dunkin treatment will be effective for these animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Scourge's End | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

Well-meaning old George Lansbury, M. P., leader of Great Britain's Labor Party, received replies last week to his fervent plea that the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury and other religious leaders should intervene to stop the "tariff war" now raging between the Mother Country and the Irish Free State (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH FREE STATE: Disappointed and Distressed | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

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