Word: passionately
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However, I have discovered a silver lining -an infallible technique I'd like to pass along: I leave the volume turned down so that I can't hear a word-only the tone of the voices. Then if the voice is one filled with violence and hatred, passion and pain, fear and death, the show is going on. When the tone changes to one filled with lush romance, gentle coaxing and Charles Boyer's eyes-then it's the announcer. . . . But when the voice comes out cool and calm and matter-of-fact, with nothing...
...notorious overgrown child prodigy and man of letters who finds himself forced to spend a few weeks in the home of a harmless Midwestern family who really didn't deserve it. Between efforts to run his unwilling host's family, a prodigious and somewhat weird literary activity, and a passion for making himself disliked, our hero unleashes a stream of wisecracks and stream a mass of bewildering situations that hasn't been matched...
...Design for Scandal" is a tribute to Rosalind Russell's versatility as a comedienne. This time she plays the frigid woman-judge whose only weakness is a chronic allergy to roses, "a human law-book" with about as much passion as the statues she carves for a hobby. Eventually, Her Honor is thawed out by the persevering attentions of Walter Pidgeon, who performs the sequence of boy meeting, losing and regaining girl with a minimum of hamming and a maximum of savior faire...
...think that subcontracting will win the war were talking last week about an ingenious new mechanical scheme to increase subcontracting. Its author is a fast-talking, high-domed, ex-filling station owner from Richmond, Va. named James S. Stanley, who has a passion for punch cards and Hollerith sorting machines. He was last heard of eight years ago as the founder of the Leisure League of America, to which he contributed suggestions for 700 ways to kill time. But his own hobby has always been work...
...Tomorrow Morning" is an appeal to the "Mechanics of the morning, you of the blunt hands, the sensitive fingers," to remember in the society of the future the anonymous intellectuals who were "swept by the same flood of passion toward the morning that is yours." Some memorable lines...