Word: lightheartedness
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If an iron tack were put near a mountain of pure iron, the tack would weigh more than it did before. This scientific conditional relative known as "induced mass," Author Taine has made the basis for a hair-raising yarn of an African primeval god, a subterranean mass of meteoric...
"Rigoletto" was the opera chosen for the opening night. The settings were conventional, a trifle simplified; the costumes constrastingly brilliant. But the manner in which the opera was sung and acted make the strongest impression of the evening: from the lighthearted courtly dance as the curtain rose, to the tragic...
The Awful Truth (Pathe). The efforts of young couples recently married to make adjustments requisite to their new mode of living have furnished material for numerous theatrical pieces, few of them more lighthearted than this play of Arthur Richman's. It was a play well fitted to be made...
"In that opulently festive corner of the earth where Maestro Ziegfeld gathers his bards. . . . The swiftest, most lighthearted, loose-limbed show for miles and years around. . . ."-Gilbert Gabriel, in the American.
It is 15 years since Falstaff was played at the Metropolitan. Verdi wrote it when he was 80 and full of frolic. He had composed so much that writing music was no longer an effort, and frequently as he wrote, he said, he was convulsed with laughter. The score is...