Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thanks to Democracy. After these deep digs at Dictators Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini, fervent M. Blum continued...
...sore at each other, the Soviet Ambassador to Germany, Comrade Jacques Suritz, a Jew who is permitted to keep Aryan housemaids in his Embassy only by special permission of the Realmleader, might lose that privilege and even be sent packing back to Moscow. Packing back to Berlin with the fervent curses of the Bolsheviks in his ears would then be sent Ambassador Graf Friedrich von der Schulenburg, an exasperatingly bland German. No matter what insults Soviet newsorgans hurl at Hitler week after week, Schulenburg is never instructed to protest, turns up smiling at Bolshevik receptions, refuses to let Communists...
...ordinary hemorrhage caused her death? Or had the fall stimulated a new growth of the old tumor? An autopsy would have settled the question. Despite the most fervent pleas, the woman's family refused to permit...
Carl Akeley was a fervent student of animals, a man of dreams and obsessions, a lover of Africa, a skilled and inventive craftsman. At 15 he quit work on his father's farm, sent out cards reading, "Artistic taxidermy in all its branches." He thought stuffed animals were ridiculous, inaugurated the practice of making a sculptured model, faithful in every muscle, curve and hollow, stretching the skin over it. He made his first trip to Africa in 1896. He saw then that little of the real Africa could be conveyed by stiff specimens without backgrounds, or by frayed...
...cinematic "Rose Marie." "Naughty Marietta" prepared one for seeing Nelson act quite brusquely toward his lady, but this picture sees him almost morose. Nelson is meant to be a Canadian Royal Mounted Policeman. And it is just a little jarring to see the Mountie in a fervent embrace with Jeanette on the mountainside, and then, the very next shot, to see him tearing from her arms her criminal brother, with no visible pangs of remorse. Duty, and all that, of course-but it really should have looked a little more painful...