Word: rabidness
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Great Lady (produced by Dwight Deere Wiman & J. H. Del Bondio). Only the most rabid Manhattan sightseers have toiled uptown to inspect the handsome, aged Jumel Mansion. Great Lady is a "biography with music'' of the mansion's former chatelaine, high-stepping Madame Eliza Jumel. From being put in the stocks for misbehaving in Providence, R. I., Eliza went on to dally with a French cavalier, marry a French businessman, almost whisk Napoleon to the U. S. after Waterloo, curtsy before Louis XVIII of France and make a second marriage, late in life, with Aaron Burr...
...estate, nee Eliza Bowen of Providence, Rhode Island, believes a woman can achieve anything she wishes if only she marry the right man. Successively she become an actress, the wife of a prominent American merchant, Stephan Jumel, and finally Mrs. Aaron Burr; throughout all this she keeps a rabid fan of Napoleon on her mind and in her heart...
...Rice falters. The author weakens his position by choosing that Captain Dale sell the ancestral seat to the "German-American Culture Society," presently launching his characters into vehement tirades of anti Nazi propaganda; furthermore he limits his point of view by making one of Dale's ancestors a rabid Northerner, and another no less a personage than Harriet Beecher Stowe...
...sentimentalism, rabid patriotism, and bitter feeling which go into the making of any great war may be seen here, as it were, in a birds-eye view. The means by which people were raised to unprecedented heights of jingoism by master professional, propagandists may be understood in every line. Something new in the world at the time, the posters are simple and direct, but very effective, and even now when war is considered the world's greatest evil, they have a punch which strikes home in a forceful manner...
...evidence is a chronicle of bygone Maine war heroes and sea captains, chief among them Kenneth Roberts' ancestors (already well-known to his readers). A new Maine hero is Colonel Joshua Chamberlain, commanding the Twentieth Maine Volunteers, who later, as Governor, was universally denounced as a rabid tory. But for him. says Roberts, "the Union army would have lost the Battle of Gettysburg and, in all probability...