Word: ravenously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deadly Weapon. In London, Daniel Raven was convicted of beating his father-in-law to death with the butt end of a television aerial...
...Kimball Hall an audience of 475 heard him work his way confidently and competently through a stiff program of Bach, Schubert, Brahms and Chopin, applauded him roundly when he finished a complicated, explosive Toccata and a pleasant Andante he had written himself. The judgment of the critics, as Seymour Raven of the Chicago Tribune summed it up: "Mr. Wolf has analyzed his music and taken a firm interpretative view of much of it. Yet he often fails where one would expect a boy to falter when wearing the shoes of a man...To hear him dwell on trifling dissonances...
Sales zoomed so fast that he had to raise $22,000 (from friends) to finance his supply inventories. Within five years Joyce's sales crossed the $1,000,000-a-year mark. In 1938 Bill Joyce hired (at $25 a week), and shortly afterward married, pert, raven-haired Faie Jarmel, onetime designer at Macy's. She put smart styling into Joyce shoes...
...other has been wandering along the East Coast and through parts of the Midwest talking to people. He has popped up in all sorts of places, and chatted over everything from tea to corn whisky and orange bitters. "I always follow the custom of the country," says Raven Ioor (pronounced yore) McDavid...
...raven locks floating down to shoulders of her Elizabethan-style dress, she swept on stage in Times Hall to give her audience her annual program of medieval and Renaissance music...