Word: fervent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most stirring dramas is a fact which does not greatly injure the effect of Yellow Jack, which remains an honest interesting chronicle about men who did not think of themselves as heroes. John Miltern (Reed), Robert Keith (Lazear), Barton MacLane (Carroll) and some 40 other actors perform it with fervent sincerity. With Men in White, They Shall Not Die, Ah, Wilderness and Tobacco Road, Yellow Jack should be a leading candidate for this year's Pulitzer Prize when the committee meets this spring...
...Saturday evening concert at Symphony Hall was a most pleasing two hours of unpretentious and gay music except, of course, for the fervent piece of Sir Edward Elgar. And oddly enough, all the composers whose operas were presented are dead except...
Into old First Baptist Church at Easton, Md. one night last week crowded 600 fervent Baptists for the wind-up of Rev. Dr. C. Thomas Brookshire's ten-day campaign. Evangelist Brookshire retired to put on rubber boots, rubber apron for the baptismal service. His pulpit was moved aside. A section of flooring was taken up to expose a waist-deep tank of water. Evangelist Brookshire stepped in. A-a-a-men! A-a-a-men! cried the congregation. Two girls, 12 and 16, approached. Praying loudly, he helped them down, doused them in the tank. Then followed...
...study of Lawyer Simon with sketches of his associates and friends. Old Mrs. Simon wobbles into her son's office at odd moments, chattering in dialect. Lawyer Simon's stepchildren are nasty urchins who despise him for an illbred Jew. His secretary worships him. Not so a fervent young Communist (Vincent Sherman) with a broken head who convincingly berates Lawyer Simon as a traitor to his class. The only flaw to be found in John Barrymore's gothically elaborate characterization of a dramatic personage in a forceful, facile story is the fact that he never...
...Fervent converts to this "way of life" are Jim Goodman and Susie Wise. He has been a practicing nudist for four months, she for three. Nothing makes Jim, a California railway conductor, feel better than to go to a nudist colony for weekends, strip off his uniform and "romp around...