Word: martially
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Today it is the Chicago Opera Company, which calls him from his haunts with the martial strains of Borls Godunoff. If ever there was a story fit to be set to music it is the story of this early Czar of Russia, and eminently fitting is the music which Moussorgsky was inspired to write. In it he has embodied the fierce old Muscovite Boyar himself; in it is the spirit of the half Oriental Princes who fought to drive the Tartan hordes from the gates; in it and through it is the note of something primitive, something untamed like...
...photography of the firing lines in France is as good as in any recent war film. The use of clever firework devices has given the impression of much explosion and shrapnel, though it may be that too few men fall by the wayside to satisfy a good martial appetite. The lighting of particular scenes, especially those in Charmaine's home, is novel and effective in its naturalness...
...Odessa and Cherson in the Ukraine, famine conditions became so aggravated last week that martial law was proclaimed and troops were ordered out to protect the state grain elevators from mobs of hungry workers...
...Landau* a French officer was tried by a French Court Martial last week for killing a German citizen and wounding two others last September at Germersheim (TIME, Oct. 11) in the occupied Rhineland. The Court acquitted the accused, Lieutenant Rouzier, of manslaughter on the grounds that he had fired in self-defense when attacked by the Germans with canes. Said the Lieutenant with cold formality in speaking of the man he killed: "If I have committed reprehensible acts I regret them. I likewise regret if they have reflected on my country, my colonel and my regiment." The two Germans wounded...
...dirty pink coat sleeves, grimaced, leaped in air. From the wings came the first violinist, in female apparel, to reproduce the temperamental repining of a neurotic soloist. Then the bandsmen, some with red wigs, some with green beards, followed the leader (who wore full Indian war feathers) in a martial composition drawn from 17 tabulated sources...