Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group from Radcliffe the singers entered into the occasion with a zest worthy both of Purcell's score and the lyrics of Nahum Tate, the Poet-Laureate of Restoration England, and they carried off the play with considerable colat. Particularly pleasant to the ear was Miss Nasmyth, the ardent and rejected heroine. Her singing was marked by beauty and clarity of tone, and her reserved expression strengthened the pathos of the third...
...voice that urged him thus! Always the fire seemed to catch the spirit of the voice, and respond to its glowing tones with ever more brilliance. Like the voice, it would subside and become quiet for a time; and then, once again, it would burst forth, ever agitated, glowing, ardent...
...Ardent Bostonians...
Sensational father-daughter joint suicides were reported throughout German Austria. Tyrolean Tycoon Friedrich Reitlinger, ardent Catholic and financial backer of the Heimwehr, had his daughter shoot him, then herself. At Innsbruck a 69-year-old university professor, Gustave Bayer, Catholic member of the Heimwehr, and his daughter swallowed overdoses of morphine, turned on the gas. Vienna's collection of world-famed Jewish medical men was thinned as specialists and hospital heads chose death by their own hands. Other prominent suicides were bespectacled Baron Odo Neustaedter-Stuermer, a Heimwehr leader under Dollfuss; Financier Gottfried Kunwald and Dr. Otto Russo, director...
Airily written, amusingly scored, sprinkled with reliable supporting players, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife has more deftness than heft, loses speed in the late rounds. Best fun: Actress Colbert warding off ardent Actor Cooper's advances with a scallion breath, announcing: "I'll fight you with every vegetable at my disposal...