Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prohibition, which it is Mrs. Willebrandt's sworn duty and, intellectual passion to help enforce, was of course the sole burden of the Willebrandt oration to the Methodists. But she had laid herself open to Democratic charges of religious incendiarism. What would Hooverism have said if a Smith supporter, let alone a public official, should cry out for an anti-Hoover uprising of Roman Catholics...
...pitiable little scene passed almost unnoticed amid the triumph of MONDISM. Famed A. J. "Emperor" Cook, the fighting Laborite who precipitated the General Strike, rose and began to address the Congress with torrential passion, crying that trade unions exist not to cooperate with employers' associations but to wring concessions from them...
Afghanistan's new flag is a further product of His Majesty's consuming passion for Occidentalizing Afghanistan-a passion which he memorably indulged, last week, by compelling Members of the National Assembly to shave off their patriarchal beards, lay aside their flowing robes, and climb into pants, shirts, coats (TIME, Sept...
...Weatherby, a portly widow with a sensuous passion for exotic religions, was flattered to receive them both one hot afternoon. Vain, she did not suspect that d'Astier came only to convert her wealth to the Church; and d'Orobelli to glean some gossip of Annie Spragg. Maundering, inaccurate, patronizing, Mrs. Weatherby said Annie had lived with her fanatic preacher brother at the edge of Winnebago Falls-her only companion a Hack goat, partner in her devilish Bacchanalian dances. That her father had been Cyrus Spragg, "the Prophet" in Illinois of a garish religion founded upon...
...Winnery, desiccated bachelor of 56, collected notes for a book on "Miracles and Other Natural Phenomena." The sight of buxom Miss Fosdick, for all her black austerity of dress, reminded him that he had never known passion...