Word: avidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...avid TIME reader. But now that you have printed those "bloodsucking lies" about "our" governor, I'm afraid TIME will be outlawed in Louisiana...
Every month in the U.S., almost 20,000,000 avid readers pore over 20-odd periodicals devoted to the greater glamor of Hollywood's stars. But in recent months the readers have seemed less avid. Movie magazine sales, which rose more than 400% in the 15 years before 1946, slipped sharply when the movie box office slumped last fall and the studios canceled 60% of their movie-magazine advertising...
...perhaps this avid desire for "a universal church" which caused the Webbs to be swept off their feet by the devout fervor of the founders of the Soviet Union. But in 1911, when this diary ends, the Webbs did not yet suspect the revolutionary upheavals that were to come. From her retreat in the "delightful countryside," Beatrice could look back over the furious past, and nostalgically recapture old memories of committees, boards, councils, intrigues and, above all, "the river Thames sweeping through the splendor and squalor of the birthplace of the 19th Century capitalist dictatorship...
Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas have a highly experienced way with this sort of comedy, and Director H. C. Potter is so much at home with it that he gets additional laughs out of the predatory rustics and even out of the avid gestures of a steam shovel. Blandings may turn out to be too citified for small-town audiences, and incomprehensible abroad; but among those millions of Americans who have tried to feather a country nest with city greenbacks, it ought to hit the jackpot...
...good. The Harvard Glee Club was at its best in voice and control for the occasion. Before the main event Dr. Koussevitzky and orchestra gave their customarily rigid performance of Beethoven's Fourth Symphony, the first and last movements of which remain to this critic deserts of brisk but avid content...