Word: quickener
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...order of the fear-stricken husband himself, comes to life and love? Certainly not hearty, round-bellied, wenching Sir Jeremy (Sydney Greenstreet) who engineered the titillating situation and kept the audience chuckling while he explained the young wife's earnest efforts, in the next room, to quicken the corpse. His double-meanings, the play's liveliest, are neatly turned. Playwright Dorranee Davis has woven an ancient habiliment for his modern comedy. Because it is not fish of the Restoration, fowl of the Jazz Age, or flesh of sound drama, it fritters off into neglibility...
...account of this viril character, A. C. Gardiner has included the head of the largest diocese in the Anglican Church in his book "Prophets; Priests, and Kings." The author describes him as "A Bishop with a certain demonstrative greatness and personal magnetism which quicken the desires and touch the heart of the crowd. He is a great bishop too, in the sense that he is a great Christian. Slumming to him has been no ideal diversion; it has been his vocation--his life. He has gone out into Victoria part to meet the Atheists face to face, to answer their...
Within the flaming personality of Mussolini is a cold nucleus, an icy core of reason and discretion. Last week, however, as he continued in triumphal style through Italian Tripoli (TIME, April 19), that warm and colorful land seemed to quicken in him a mood of expansive wellbeing. His utterances mellowed from veiled imperial threats toward the colonies of other nations into a hymn in praise of Tripoli...
With a band of musical orphans and another of Salvation Army players to quicken their steps, 250 young Manhattanites marched on Fifth Avenue last Sunday carrying an average of 28 Bibles apiece. They were under the auspices of the New York Bible Society, and the 7,000 Bibles were presents to the management of 53 hotels in the metropolis, for distribution in bed-chambers. This consignment of Bibles brought the number distributed by the Society in hotels...
...that its citizens are taken in the North for Virginians. They are also tired of explaining that Natural Bridge is not in their State, and furthermore, that they do not raise peanuts. These reasons are rational enough. Senator Chilton also ventures the opinion that "maybe a new name would quicken the spirit that languishes...