Word: liveliest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toad Disney is back where he belongs-in the world of inspired fauna and improbable flora. J. Thaddeus Toad, madcap scion of an ancient family of landed British amphibians and a passionate gadgeteer, comes near being one of his liveliest, most lovable creations. Narrated with crisp anonymity by Basil Rathbone, the film is packed with memorable moments: Toad chugging about on his rump in delirious imitation of a motorcar; his flight from jail through a dark blue night stitched red with running gunfire; the defeat of the thieving weasels in the epochal battle of Toad Hall. This lighthearted, fast-moving...
Once edited by Poet Lafcadio Hearn, the 72-year-old Item had its liveliest years (1891-1906) under gun-toting Editor & Publisher Dominick O'Malley, who was twice wounded in pitched battles. In the 1930s it slumped in prestige and circulation, partly because it acted as a mouthpiece for Boss Huey Long while the rival Times-Picayune- whiplashed his regime...
...years "on the God beat" for the Press since that Sunday, Frank Stewart has been a welcome stranger at 550 of Cleveland's 800 churches, and his Monday column on the editorial page ("A Stranger Goes to Church") has become probably the liveliest and best-read newspaper church column in the U.S. This week, at its first meeting in Buffalo, the Religious Newswriters Association took official note of this; it elected 55-year-old Frank Stewart president...
...week, now pays its 161 VariType operators only $10,000 a week. By putting more money and more thought than its rivals into developing the new process, the Trib had gotten the best results. In news coverage and news play, also, it was still Chicago's liveliest sheet. Nevertheless, its circulation had slumped-from 1,010,000 at the strike's outset to around 950,000 last week. Nobody knew just why. Best guess: now that there is little change in editions, many readers who had once bought an evening and a morning Trib are buying only...
Rivera himself considers it his best mural. Critics could agree in placing it among the best-integrated and liveliest in color of Rivera's paintings, but they might reasonably complain that it takes the maestro himself to even begin to tell what it is all about...