Word: fervent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Matteotti also belonged to this party. The exposure is timely also because the trial of the Matteotti assassins has become inevitable. Gen. Capello, who is jointly accused, is a fervent Freemason. The Fascists are violent against the Grand Lodge...
ALONG THE ROAD?Aldous Huxley?Doran ($2.00). Not a very satisfying book unless you are either a passionate pilgrim or a fervent admirer of the sheer literary skill of slender, drooping, cynical Mr. Huxley. Here he is less cynical than usual, for he is traveling, enjoying himself, not trying particularly to be clever. In Rotterdam, Mantua, Siena, Munich, Monte Carlo, he idly employs his notebook to jot notes which will keep his warm coat of culture sleek and glossy. He takes the usual liberties?writing about his spectacles, the books he takes, Why Not Stay Home, etc.?but still...
...second the plot lifts its girlie-girlie face, and ghosts of the unsung ballads interrupt the accomplished small-town gabbing of Maidel Turner, and the adept gaucheries of Drug Clerk Kenneth Dana. Mildred Mac-Leod, as a dreamy girl troubled by an explosion of cloudy and fervent aspiration, plays her part with a pretty precision...
Direction that was so obvious that it seemed at times burlesque blurred the virtues of the work. Fervent overacting also detracted. Ruth Nugent, quiet, direct, sometimes a little wistful amid the sub-Babbitt racket, mattered markedly. Altogether the piece is a doubtful value, and yet the first entertainment of the season for adult consideration...
Moose. In Baltimore, led by a detachment of police, behind which marched James J. Davis, U. S. Secretary of Labor, with the student band of Mooseheart behind them, 18,000 members of the Loyal Order of Moose, in fervent costumes, assembled for the grand parade when-Wumps, came the rain. It fell heavily. Heedless, the Moose began to march. The rain poured down their backs. They marched on. It wetted the women along the route; those who came to cheer remained to shiver; the Moosemen marched on. It soaked their hats, it trickled down their socks; a one-legged Moose...