Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Getting nominated for Congress-and elected-is different from Aldermanic campaigns in Manhattan. Mrs. Pratt's opponent, Phelps Phelps, is experienced and determined. Politics is a passion with him. He is a sort of Republican Tammanyite who spends all but a fragment of the $70,000 per annum or so which his father left him, on presents for his precinct voters-milk, Christmas stockings, coal, Easter eggs...
...Daughter of a Rhinelander, she was brought up to winter in Manhattan, summer in Newport, travel in Europe. Her most brilliant work reflects Fifth Avenue society of the '90s (in her House of Mirth, in her Age of Innocence), but oddly enough her masterpiece concerns the passion and remorse of a New England farmer, Ethan Frame. Author Wharton is the only woman upon whom Yale has conferred the doctorate of literature...
...honor of the Spaniard is based on pure subjective passion, the pathos of the lone individual. ... Self-help alone appeals to him as being both sensible and justified. ... The impartial judge who in cold blood sentences to death ... must in the eyes of the Spaniard rank lower than the murderer. ... Spain belongs not to Europe but to Africa...
...bombs on the other from an airplane, filling the theatre with smoke and confusion. The action-of which there is plenty-is largely laid in the beer king's den, a place of small tables, gats, a periscope, and other gangish claptrap. Here, in a moment of solicitous passion, one of the beer king's favorites whispered to a hushed house: "It ull sunds silly of cuss." That was true...
...rubber-company father, distressed, arranges to remove the cultured Gaul to Ohio, hoping Daughter will be disillusioned by his Old World fragrance among robustuous U. S. odors. Chameleon Pierre turns Babbitt, nearly estranges the girl while ingratiating himself with her father, ultimately wins her with a recrudescence of Gallic passion when his success is dramatically jeopardized by an American rival. The farce is spotted with easy gags, is occasionally deft, never hysterical. Kenneth MacKenna as Pierre, Lucile Nikolas as Barbara, Harlan Briggs as Father make the most of it, provide an evening of contented chuckling...