Word: rabidness
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SOVIET RUSSIA AND REPUBLICAN FRANCE were changed from secret enemies into secret bedfellows by mounting mutual hate & fear of Adolf Hitler, rabid anti-Red and anti-Republican. Symbol of this Franco-Russian bedding was Soviet Russia's admission to the League of Nations with French Foreign Minister Barthou as chief sponsor. He and Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinoff had meanwhile secretly begotten in draft form the Eastern Locarno Pact first revealed by M. Barthou at London (July 8, 1934), today the diplomatic white hope of Europe. Rumor persists that he and Comrade Litvinoff arranged a Russo-French military entente...
Laymen for whom Stravinsky's music holds an almost pagan quality are surprised to hear that he is ardently religious, says his prayers and goes regularly to the Russian Orthodox Church. But even with his faith and fervor Stravinsky has remained a rabid hypochondriac, always worrying over his own and everyone else's health. His nervous hope last week was that U. S. audiences would be more understanding than the customs officer who picked a package of wordless scores from his luggage and asked him in what language he had written them...
...long, lean Viscount sat toying with a rolled up copy of the bill and faintly smiling, while the short, fat Baron accused him broadly of a maneuver to rig the judiciary and more precisely of specific machinations to obstruct the seniority rights of Lord Justice Slesser ("Slosher"), a rabid Socialist...
Many people went to look at her nakedness in Thaïs, to watch her lascivious dancing in Salome. But Mary Garden drew as many operagoers with the emotion in her voice as she did with the perfection of her body. Even her most rabid critics granted her genius for the way she captured the fragile, tenuous spirit of Debussy's Mélisande...
...Hearst party sailed for Gibraltar where it will disembark, spend a month in Spain stalking antiques. After a visit to Italy Mr. Hearst will go on to Bad Nauheim where he will learn with interest that a rabid Nazi newspaper, Deutsche Wochenschau, has spread the word that he is a "notorious Jewish agitator whose real name is Herz." In London a caravan of automobiles has been engaged to whisk the chief & retinue to the Hearst castle in Glamorgan, South Wales...