Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with rippling laughter for everyone except himself. Mr. Barrymore's recently acquired wife, Irene Fenwick, is Simonetta, the divinity whose love for someone else prompts him to end his life with the greatest gesture of grotesquery?suicide. Ian Keith plays the "someone else" and does it with a fine fervor and distinction...
...moral lassitude; and to hold the spirit on a lofty plane amid the sordid cares of peace is harder than in the actress of war. To do so we must keep our thoughts in tune with those who gave their lives upon the field, and died in glowing fervor for the cause they served. Without their courage, without their steadfastness of purpose, without their belief that the scourge of war can be taken from the earth, their work cannot be carried...
...press: " Three young men from Oxford now debating with American university students seem likely to explode an ancient theory- namely, that the British lack wit . . subtle shafts of irony ... the house in merriment . . . seldom raised their voices . . . preferred reason to fervor...
...violin, played in the customary position for the violin. Its tone is very distinctive, deeper, mellower and moodier than that of the violin. Its lack lies in variety. It does not have the alternate darkness and brightness of the violin or the alternate bass strength and majesty and tenor fervor of the violoncello, but preserves a characteristic romantic melancholy throughout...
France Farrar is supposed to have been pro-German during the War. Of course, she did have her pre-American career in Germany. Many Americans, however, will remember the diva singing The Star Spangled Banner with great fervor at various times during the hostilities. This assuredly removes any suspicion from her of lack of love for the Allies...