Word: vehementer
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...cents, the best play in London is not English at all. The Count of Clerembard, a French satire by Marcel Ayme, is a thorough delight and will soon be brought to America. Clive Brook, as the Count, is a bestial huntsman converted by a miracle to equally vehement Christianity. He decides that his son must marry that humblest of all creatures, the town prostitute (played by Mai Zetterling). Without sacrificing any humor, the play deepens from farce to genuine reverence. Its unresolved conclusion, called by one London critic "seatty and sacreligious," is just the opposite, if there is an antonym...
...midnight in the bitter year 1932, two journalists-one white, one Negro-walked south along Philadelphia's Broad Street in a sleety drizzle. They were talking of the Negro problem, the white man with a vehement impatience for justice, his companion more calmly and out of a deeper feeling for the scope and depth of the subject. Before parting, they stood a while under the marquee of the old Broad Street Station. Across the square under the arcade of city hall, dozens of men, wrapped in newspapers, slept. Panhandlers and a few night-shift apple-sellers stood on corners...
Opposition to the University's proposed housing project at Shady Hill remained vehement and virtually unanimous last night among those living immediately around the tentative site...
...precedent for the poll was set in Kirkland House, where a similar survey was taken last month. But, although virtually 90 percent of the response reputedly showed a vehement dislike for chicken saute a lamerango, there has not, as of yet, been any official change in the menu...
...Over the vehement opposition of the California Teachers Association, the Young Republicans, the Young Democrats, the C.I.O. and the A.F.L., the San Francisco Board of Education took highhanded revenge on teachers who opposed the reappointment of one board member last fall. By a vote of 5 to 1, the board passed a resolution forbidding any teacher to work for or against any candidate for any local office. Protested a C.T.A. official: "This is a basic issue with far more than local import. Now it's local candidates The next thing we know it could be extended to a campaign...