Word: revelling
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...estimated 400 representatives of the Crimson and Big Green will stage their annual combined revel next Friday night at the eighteenth annual Harvard-Dartmouth ball, scheduled to be held again in the sumptuous and spacious Louis XIV ballroom of the Hotel Somerset...
...makers of "Foreign Correspondent" the War is a matter of purely secondary importance. To Mr. Alfred Hitchcock in particular it is merely a road to his happy hunting grounds--a weird land of rain and mist where he can revel in his clement, suspense. Genially he takes you on a tour through croaking old windmills and murky side streets, pointing out the sights until your eyes bulge out of their sockets, and enjoying his own depravity intensely. For Mr. Hitchcock is a sadist, and "Foreign Correspondent" is a rhapsody in sadism, an apotheosis of the Horrid...
Forty-seven years ago last week at Revel, Russia (now Tallinn, Estonia), a boy was born who was destined to make his mark in European politics. As a youth he soap-boxed for anti-Semitism and studied architecture. As a nominal subject of the Tsar he fought (so his enemies later said) with the Russian Imperial Armies. As a descendant of an old German Baltic family, he became a Pan-German and returned, after World War I, to his "spiritual homeland...
...more than welcome reality. As is to be expected however, the personal triumph of Bette Davis as the ruthless but passion-torn Elizabeth is the high point of the picture. For this is the type of gutty part which other actresses shun, but in which Miss Davis seems to revel. But her dashing Essex, Errol Flynn, moons through his scenes like a self-conscious school boy. And as if this were not enough of an indignity, the adapters of the play have handed her a script which has been completely stripped of its poetic beauty. It seems a pity that...
...about 1,500 jazz records to take home with him. Critic Lim did not like jitterbugs. They seemed like irreverent, undignified drunkards. "If," said he, "we in Batavia were ever so lucky as to hear a concert by Duke Ellington or Tommy Dorsey, we would study it, sit and revel in the sound of it, but we would not shake our fingers at it nor cut the carpet with our shoes...