Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Liveliest was the Town Hall meeting which opened with a few amiable pleasantries from moonfaced, unctuous Alexander Woollcott. Up rose shock-headed Lewis Mumford, author of Sticks and Stones, able commentator on modern U. S. architecture, fervent Wrightite, and proceeded in a slow, booming voice to rend the ''wise men from the East" who are designing Chicago's Fair...
...dallied with the thought, tossing it around the corners of his room. And then, pinned up on his daily calendar, he espied a way out of it all. He had found balm for his fevered brain. And he breathed a prayer of fervent thanks to Professor Greenough. For today at 2 o'clock in Sever 11, the Professor would have the answer to his problems. How to be a gentleman, what were the spooks in the Vagabond's garret, and what was this life beyond the grave. Chesterfield, Horace Walpole, and Gray, would be the pinnacles of the hour...
...Museum of the Peaceful Arts. With little advance publicity and less inaugural fuss, yet another Manhattan museum opened last week. Its name: The Museum of French Art. Its location: the handsome French Institute Building, No. 22 East 60th St. Its donors: Mr. & Mrs. Chester Dale, famed and fervent collectors of modern...
...size, athletics & endowment) by calling Princeton University's Triangle Club show "most ambitious of U. S. college musicomedies" in Dec. 29 issue of their popular news concentrate. All of the many thousands of University of Pennsylvania subscribers & readers both undergraduates & alumni sent messages by mentelepathy or letters with fervent "absurds!" "Why not attend a Mask & Wig show...
Dictated and signed by a pop-eyed Negro, name of Edwin Felton, this fervent confession was read last week to solemn white folks seated pompously about big green-topped tables in Andrew Carnegie's commodious Peace Palace at The Hague...