Word: fervid
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...included the lapidary line, "I could do mousily by a crumb of cheese." There are already two schools former and formidable in re the quoted line. One cannot but believe that Miss Millay intended "mousily" to express classic restraint. The other answers that on the contrary "mousily" show a fervid romanticism, for was not "mousily" used by Ooblinskingdorften in his Critique des Souris in which he quaintly puts it. "I under the cheeses will but now be most droneen...
...judge Mr. Bennett's latest novel by his own literary standards were an act of tolerance which would demand the suppression of fervid personal reaction on the part of the critics as well as an intimate knowledge of Mr. Bennetts psychology. Assuming, then, that "Lord Raingo" is all it is intended to be, the reader's disappointment mounts through nearly 400 pages from mild distaste to a peak of pure chagrin and positive depression...
...once Lacoste had perceived what was wanted of him the drama moved forward with a steadily sharpening curve of emotion. Lacoste took the first set 6-3, the second 12-10. The champion now employed all of those hackneyed stage flourishes that mar his more fervid performances. Even as actors of genuine talent sometimes paw the air and mouth their lines, so Tilden permitted himself an occasional half-stagger; he took off his shoes and played in his stocking feet; he poured buckets of ice-water over his bleak brow. However crude his technique in indicating to the gallery that...
WHITE CARGO?One of the oldest settlers still telling its fervid tale of white men and brown women in the wastes of Africa...
...number 82. Two are to be published posthumously. She was not a slow and painstaking writer, stringing her words like gems through hours of precious toil. She allowed twenty chapters to a novel, wrote a chapter a day.* Her themes never varied. They always had to do with love?fervid, magnificent love. Her exemplary heroes and heroines she invariably nursed benevolently to a final altar?at least to an engagement ring. They might always be presumed to live happily ever after...