Word: riotousness
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...best rounded twin bill we've witnessed this season. "The Woman I Love", starring Paul Muni and Miriam Hopkins, tells the story of the usual love triangle against a background of the front line trenches on the Soissons sector in 1917, while "We Have Our Moments", a gay and riotous farce of twenty years later, put the audience in giggles the moment the news reel before it subsided and left many in the aisles exhausted at the end of the hour and a half it held the screen...
...inquisitive observers who admired a riotous display of colored lights and strains of soft music from the right bank of the Charles Saturday evening, students of the Business School were having their gala evening of the year...
...speedily destroyed by the fact that Colonel Denbrough's eagerness to have his daughter marry a marine is equaled only by her determination to do nothing of the sort. By the time a satisfactory compromise is reached, Phil has worked himself up to a lieutenancy through a riotous career on a Pacific island where his most spectacular achievement is reorganizing a native village on the lines of an East Side precinct, complete with fruit stand graft for his best friend (Warren Hymer). Good shot: a native mutiny ending when Donlan picks up the spears thrown...
...Russia when he wrote Fireworks as a wedding present for Rimsky-Korsakov's daughter. Diaghilev commissioned him in 1910 to compose for the Russian Ballet. In the next few years Stravinsky's name sped across Europe as the author of the blazing, polyphonic Firebird and the riotous Petrouchka. The harsh, neolithic percussions of Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps were less welcome, made first-nighters in Paris hiss and jeer. Stravinsky unconcernedly went his way. Suddenly he announced he was through with picture-music and would "return to Bach." His style grew clearer, if more austere, showed...
...entire story of my meeting with that estimable gentleman at a cafeteria on Broadway some two months ago, our riotous evening together, and his subsequent disappearance with every cent I had, would be too long to go into here. ... I may say, though, that in the course of the evening we bought a copy of the Philadelphia Inquirer of May 17 in which there was published an article on the Matanuska Valley colony by this eminent authority on the subject. Too, he showed me numerous articles of the same nature which he had written, and which he had planned...