A founding member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (1927), he advanced into the talking era of films with equal verve, although his roles were, more often than not, token grouches.

He charged and retired with equal verve and similar results.

His propensity to switch-hit, representing Republicans or Democrats indiscriminately, was foreshadowed in his years as a high school debate team captain during which classmates recall him debating any side of an issue with equal verve and persuasiveness.

A deputy police chief in Trenton who lives in Ewing, Mr. Constance has attacked with equal verve the crime issue, welfare cheating, the influence of the state teachers' union and the burden of taxes in the district.

According to Queensland poet Jaya Savige "Caddy writes with equal verve about the rural southwest of WA and her time abroad, particularly in China (though also Canada and Antarctica).

It's been 35 years since New York has seen a retrospective of this prominent Ashcan School painter, who is best known for his dramatic images of boxers, but painted the shore of Maine and Manhattan street scenes with equal verve.

Mr. Telson remains a musician of impressive sophistication, capable of composing with equal verve for a steel band or his own rock band (Little Village) or his frequent interpreter, the gospel belter Jevetta Steele.

Another prize administrator wondered whether many authors' agents, who have been known to haggle over the smallest details of a book's publication, ever think to hound the publisher with equal verve about potential prizes.

Dancing with equal verve, the demi-soloists were Allison Brown, Stacey Calvert, Julie Michael and Kathleen Tracey.