Word: hot-blooded
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...This hot-blood from Picardy was wrestling then in his soul, between the relentless, earthy doctrines of Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, and a certain stirring of religious mysticism within him which he had tried in vain to sully, down, and conquer by debauch. Perhaps in the young man's troubled mind Death and God seemed strangely opposed, for he had just come from the sick bed of a favorite grandfather, then dying of cancer of the stomach...
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