Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Evocations, as in many earlier works* (Schelomo, Israel Symphony, Sacred Service, Voice in the Wilderness), Bloch mixes French Impressionism with fervent Levantine lamentation, getting an idiomatic pottage peculiarly his own. His finest scores reflect the barbaric splendor of the Old Testament, sing their Hebraic song with prophetic thunder and wailing intensity. Even his "America" Symphony -which won a $5,000 prize offered in 1927 by Musical America for the most distinguished work by a resident American- was colored by Hebraic idioms...
...earlier note in which restitution had been freely promised. As its best guarantee that the "mistake" would not be repeated, Japan pointed out that "the recall of the Commander of the flying force [Teizo Mitsunami] has a significance of special importance," which, it was Minister Hirota's "fervent hope," would be appreciated...
...Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, was called on the carpet before his Emperor to explain the Panay bombing and, as senior Japanese naval officer responsible under the commander in chief on the Nanking front, Rear Admiral Teizo Mitsunami, 48, was recalled to Japan in disgrace. From staff officers in Shanghai came fervent but indefinite suggestions of a voluntary subscription among Japanese sailors for the relief of the Panay's victims and an official salute was delivered over the Panay's watery grave. The Nichi Nichi raised a fund of 3,466 yen ($1,008) in one day, printed the suggestion...
Japanese officers in Shanghai, Japanese officials in Tokyo and Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Saito in Washington were by this time making the most fervent apologies to every U. S. official and journalist they could find. "Of course it was completely accidental and a great mistake!" cried hard-boiled Ambassador Saito as he worried in to see Secretary Hull. "I have come to bring deep regrets...
...build a Rumanian factory which will turn out war tanks, and to arrange that Rumanian crude oil and gasoline will be accepted by Paris in payment for fine new artillery, additional tanks to be supplied to Bucharest. Premier Tatarescu was so pleased that he joined M. Delbos in a fervent pledge that "our two countries will remain faithful to the League of Nations and its principles." At the same time, however M. Delbos was warned that Rumania will uphold her end of the bargain only so long as it continues clear that Paris is now loosening rather than tightening...