vital energies; vital functions; vital actions

We pickled the remainder of the crop.

Guillemets, however, proved popular and remain the key method of indicating quotations in French, Arabic, Italian, Greek and many other languages.

Weill's first collaboration as composer with Bertolt Brecht was on the singspiel (or “songspiel,” as he called it) Mahagonny (1927), which was a succes de scandale at the Baden—Baden (Germany) Festival in 1927.