Word: pasion
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...site of the diggings, the Altar de Sacrificios, is near the meeting of the Rio Pasion and the Rio Choxy, in the Department of Peten. Although a Peabody Museum expedition discovered the center in 1895, Professor Willey made the preliminary explorations only last year...
...actors. This film should make his fame, as "The Four Horsemen" made that of Rudolph Valentino. Then, besides the leading couple, Lionel Barrymore is effective as the cruel Captain Butler, who directs the Iroquois raids, and ravages the American outposts. About these three a rapidly shifting melodrama of death, pasion, and mad action revolves with bewildering intensity. Indian raids, banquets, panoramic rides of rescue, fort-storming, and cavalry charges of fighting patriots succeed each other. Deep touches of pathos, and fleeting moments of humor--some ridiculous, some gruesome--are mixed through. The scenes are all emotional to the extreme. When...
Another fragment, number 2219, is a complaint from a weaver of Oxyrhynchus, to the strategos Tiberius Claudius Pasion, because Apoliophanes, a tax-collector, had extorted sixteen drachmae from...