Word: passion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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April 2.--"The Power of the Passion", Rev. T. S. Cline, of St. Stephen's Church, Boston...
...speech. We owe Mr. Roosevelt a great debt for awakening the public conscience in this regard to the illegitimacy of many large fortunes. But the reforms which are necessary can be accomplished best if they are enacted by a conservative representatives body, rather than in the heat of popular passion. The conservatives of the country believe that President Taft has shown himself eminently fit to be intrusted with the leadership in this great task...
...Young Oxonians, in general, lead a serene and undistracted, but rich and wholesome life. They cultivate athletics because each is an active devotee of some form of sport. And conversation--in junior commons, in the informal clubs, in study or in tutor's room--it is an education, a passion...
...braggadocio of the coast town and its tavern (a majority of the best scenes, and the real "home-scenes" of the play, are in taverns), and of the lovable, boyish soldier of fortune, free of rapier and purse; the praise of courage and the ridicule of cowards; the passion for fighting against Spain, and the readiness to go upon the high seas...