Word: revelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Revel. In Old Moscow last week was held the first Carnival permitted by earnest Bolsheviks since the Revolution of 1917. With returning bourgeois gaiety, 100,000 Russians were encouraged to enjoy a madcap masked revel which lasted nearly all night in the Park of Culture & Rest, the State supplying masks and soft drinks, with all alcoholic tipples barred. Since the habit of censorship has become ingrained under Stalin, arriving revelers were inspected at the gates by censors who said that their purpose was "to keep out joy killers." Barred was a Russian who arrived in a tight black suit painted...
...wisecracks, the crooned syncopation and eager pace of last year's musicals would be an unthinkable violation. Paris in Spring handsomely exhibits all the proper appointments in the manner of the day: no gags, no chorus, no comic. Sprightliness is the keynote of the dialog. Songwriters Harry Revel and Mack Gordon, with a fetching title song and probably the year's best tango (Bonjour, Mam'selle), are continental in chunks, and Mary Ellis, though she frequently sings with abandon, keeps her well-proportioned body covered at all times with expensive furs or drygoods...
...Dead. Knowing only a little of Abyssinia, its blazing heat and freezing nights, its mosquito-infested swamps, fierce tribesmen, arid plains and almost impregnable mountains, what benefits then does Italy expect to get from its subjugation? Italian Finance Minister Count Paolo Thaon di Revel announced last week that the Italian expedition to Abyssinia had already cost the Fascist Government $50,000,000, and Italian troops have not yet crossed the frontier. Fascist bigwigs divide the Abyssinian advantages of the campaign into two groups, sentimental and practical...
...Vagabond has been sitting for an hour with nary a thought in his poor addled brain. The moon laughs in at him through the window and the lights on the river twinkle "Out for a gambol and revel with the doxies. It's spring...
...usual in a Thorne Smith story, the situation is extreme, the characters more so. An aged roue calls on his equally aged mistress, takes a turn in the garden and discovers the extraordinarily rejuvenating qualities of the swimming pool. His mistress follows suit; an all-night revel ensues, joined by the local fire brigade. Towards morning the old roue, now young and vigorously drunk, unfortunately suffers another immersion in the pool, and is rejuvenated to infancy before he can be rescued. But he still continues to have some of the appetites of a man of the world, calls mewlingly...