Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the many famed lovers of Amandine Lucile Aurore Dupin Dudevant (George Sand) was the volcanic lawyer, Michel de Bourges, who upon completing a fervent lecture on republicanism, would lock her in her bedroom to meditate his philosophy. But that there were no lovers at all has occurred only to George Sand's loyal granddaughter, Aurore Sand (Mme Lauth). Indignant that there should be so much talk concerning the chastity of her illustrious grandmother, Aurore Sand sued Jacques Boulenger in her defense when he published The Early Loves of George Sand in 1928, but lost when the court ruled...
...Neilson from his accustomed activities, which have included writing scholarly books on Shakespeare and Chaucer; chaffing (he is witty, Scottish) with his German wife; endeavoring drily to confuse humorless alumnae and joining gaily in at class reunions (see cut), telling proudly how he was once kissed by a small, fervent blonde whom he had just berated and expelled from Smith...
According to legend, the idea of the play originated in the dream-ridden brain of a hard-worked laundress in Jacksonville, Fla. Actually, it originated in the fervent head of one Lula B. Jones, onetime member of Big Bethel's enthusiastic choir. She told her idea to the choir leader, Mrs. Nellie Davis, Atlanta night-school teacher, a graduate of Atlanta University in 1922. Nellie Davis built the idea into Heaven Bound, a play that is part pageant, part revival meeting, part spiritual charades in which the only part not sung is the sob of the Wayward Girl...
...heard no more. No matter what diversions are planned for in the "new life" at Yale, it will not be possible to make young men 100 per cent content with a "city college." Week-ending is not caused by a dissatisfaction with the University, but by a fervent eagerness to get a change in atmosphere. Those who wish to discourage our "exodus" do so without a real understanding of the problem...
With Parnell he toured the U. S. several times, collecting money from fervent Fenians for The Cause, but he finally broke with Parnell after the latter's life with Kitty O'Shea had become an international Victorian scandal...