Word: fervid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beat and blare of the fervid little quintet seemed familiar and so did most of the names: Ingle, Estes, Williams, Bodtkin. But behind the trumpet, instead of the famous "Red" Ingle, Hollywood jazz fans saw a curly-haired youngster of 18-Ingle's son Don. At the traps, in place of "Ace" Estes, was Estes' skinny, long-nosed boy Gene, 18. They counted off the same way right around the stand. Last week, devoutly following in their fathers' solid-beat footsteps, the famous sons' five were the hottest band in Hollywood...
...themselves last summer. Member after member, Republican and Democrat alike, rose to dispute Texas Ed. Pennsylvania's James G. Fulton pointed out that the D.P. behavior record was better than that of the U.S. occupation forces. New York's Kenneth B. Keating declared: "They are the most fervid anti-Communists I have ever encountered." To exclude any possible subversives, "there has been set up a truly formidable labyrinth of five screening agencies through which these people must go." Added Kentucky's Frank L. Chelf: "Out of the 200 D.P. camps personally visited...we found only...
...sort of melodrama in which an ordinary guy gets into extraordinary trouble. The guy (Dick Powell), a claims adjuster for an insurance firm, is a happy homebody with a wife (Jane Wyatt) and child (Jimmy Hunt). But duty requires Dick to investigate a Pitfall (Lizabeth Scott). He spends a fervid evening with her and even kisses her, right in front of the camera. This dalliance generates plot complications that put one man in the morgue and another in the hospital. As the picture ends, it is clear that Dick's wife is going to make marriage as unpleasant...
Britons received this pronouncement calmly. After five days' close acquaintance, they had discovered that there was little solid fare beneath the fervid preaching and the tousled charm. Personally, they liked him. But they failed to see why he should cause such excitement...
...girl named Kathryn Grayson, who sings. "It Happened in Brooklyn" has something to do with a shy ex-soldier with a great and unrequited love for the well-known borough, accompanied by an assortment of others (girl music teacher, boy piano-player, bashful songwriter), all with fervid musical ambitions. At frequent intervals they burst out into song, both separately and en masse...