Word: rabidly
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...eleven months Franklin D. Roosevelt saw 83 feature cinemas, 73 "short subjects" and 500 reels of news. The total (1,327) was four times as many as seen by Herbert Hoover, five times as many as by Calvin Coolidge. 18% more than the estimated average mean consumption of "rabid type" cinemaddicts in a similar period. Two pictures President Roosevelt had exhibited twice at the White House: The Fighting President, a compilation of newsreel shots of himself, and Gabriel Over The White House, a melodramatic anticipation of the New Deal...
...Philadelphia two months ago a great outcry followed Leopold Stokowski's announcement that at the next Youths' Concert he would play Soviet Russia's ''Internationale." The American Legion publicly protested. Broker Francis Ralston Welsh, rabid antiCommunist, called Stokowski a Red. William Curtis Bok, the Orchestra Association's vice president, tried to smooth things over by saying that he thought Stokowski would change his mind, that "it was probably just one of those things that pop into his head...
...their pencils until after the opening night, so Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson passed as a patriotic gesture. Like the openings which have gone before, the Metropolitan's 1933-34 season began as a social spectacle. Chief interest seemed to be that John Pierpont Morgan was there, rabid on the subject of photographers; that Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt was wearing a diamond stomacher; and that Emil Katz, the Metropolitan's caterer who during Prohibition bought William K. Vanderbilt's cellar for $70,000, was selling champagne again, for $2.50 a glass...
...turns popping in & out. He pins things at last on the most disarming member of the cast, after a sentimental interlude with another Chinese (recognizable as such by black pajamas, bent knees, croaking falsetto, handscraping). All this is capably strung together but will take the breath of none but rabid Channists...
...socialism, tariff, and banking, do not lend themselves to adequate treatment in a small discussion group. They require a depth of learning and clearness of exposition which only the capable lecturer can offer. The discussion of certain other subjects in small groups often is robbed of value by those rabid partisans; ever present, whose personal convictions approach the rigidity of madness. Untutored remarks, even though inspired by the assurance that silence will be severely penalized, are apt to become more amusing than instructive. The need for a guiding voice is obvious...