Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flame of deep religious passion enkindle your souls, as this alone can maintain a high tradition for the Olympic Games and realize their sublime ideal."-Baron Pierre De Coubertin, at the opening of the IXth Olympiad in Amsterdam, Holland, last week. It was he who was chiefly responsible for the revival of modern Olympiades in 1896. "Once again it's America against the world."-Typical statement in U. S. newspapers. And so the IXth Olympiad opened in Amsterdam's red brick stadium in the presence of Prince Consort Henry and Master of Ceremonies Baron A. Schimmelpenninck...
...adequate story or poem of the Civil War (aside from Walt Whitman's Lincoln). Yet, the Civil War surpasses in colorful drama any other episode in U. S. history, and Poet Benet proves it so. Delving into that not quite forgotten past, he reproduces atmosphere and currents of passion. Through 377 pages of close-packed verse, his rhythm is pompous for matters of state, simple for poignant stories of lovers and "Hiders" and deserters, cadenced for darky
...your issue of July 16 under the department caption PEOPLE-"Names make news" there is a paragraph headed Tallulah Bankhead, followed by an account of a man's jumping from the liner Rochambeau into the Atlantic Ocean. In view of your avowed passion for accuracy may I point out the following errors in the account...
...self-righteous Protestantism of the '80s, snatch up the offer of "noble" Caleb to take Naomi and give her bastard a name. Naomi suffers untold husbandly violations from Caleb, but comforts herself that some day she will tell Brook, her daughter and Joe's, of the beautiful passion by the gay brook for which the child was named...
...FLIGHTS UP-Mary Roberts Rine-hart-Doubleday Doran ($2.) Connoisseurs of mystery stories-a great many of both have cropped up in the last decade -prefer them undiluted with the tender passion. Though Author Rinehart knows how to write a mystery story (The Amazing Interlude, The Red Lamp), and her sons* know how to publish them, she indulges in dilution to the extent of a new volume self-labelled "a love story-with just enough mystery." Mystery connoisseurs will be disappointed. Love-storyites will find in Holly a spineless heroine, in Warrington a blundering hero in spite of his burly...