Word: revivalistic
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Until the finding of the two starved corpses on Marchena Island, 160 miles north of Charles Island, that was all the outside world knew. The baroness had vanished. Radio Revivalist Phillips Lord ("Seth Parker"), cruising offshore, reported by wireless that he had dined with the Wittmers only the week before, that the second body could not be Mrs. Wittmer's. Soundest theory seemed to be that Rudolph Lorenz (who may or may not have murdered the baroness) was picked up by the Norwegian fisherman Nuggerud for the trip to San Cristobal Island where Lorenz could take schooner passage...
Though he thinks Mexico City an unanswerable "argument against our present economic system," mass movements, whether political or esthetic, fail to move his scientific enthusiasm or stir his particularistic curiosity: "It will be interesting to see whether the revivalist enthusiasm worked up by Communists, Nazis and Fascists will last longer than the similar mass emotion aroused by the first Franciscans. . . . Folk-art is often dull or insignificant; never vulgar, and for an obvious reason. Peasants lack, first, the money, and, second, the technical skill to achieve those excesses which are the essence of vulgarity." Author Huxley speaks for the majority...
...This Day & Age (Paramount), Cecil Blount DeMille addresses himself to two obsolescent problems: 1) the gangster, 2) the younger generation. A director who combines the talents of a burlesque impresario and a soap-box revivalist, he makes the result a noisy and preposterous melange, calculated to arouse squeals of excitement or of ennui, according to the audience's mental...
...McCarthy, Annie Riley Hale, Robert Pierce Shuler, Justus S. Wardell, William Gibbs McAdoo. Abbott and McCarthy are irreconcilable supporters of Alfred Emanuel Smith who still think this is 1928. The candidacy of Mrs. Hale (Colyumist Heywood Broun's mother-in-law) is not taken seriously. ''Bob" Shuler, a radio revivalist, is a political maverick who is also running in the Republican primary. The real race appeared to be between Mr. Wardell, who managed Governor Roosevelt's unsuccessful preconvention campaign in California and Mr. McAdoo who swung the votes at the Chicago convention that nominated Roosevelt. As each candidate claims...
...jail, Pastor Brown moaned: "I wish I were dead, too!" But he insisted Revivalist Rider had forcefully trespassed on his premises...