Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...savages swooped upon the peaceful Kaw village 1868, small Charles Curtis, aged 8, stole bravely past the enemy's pickets at nightfall and travelled 60 miles to Topeka for help. Be that as it may, he lived in Topeka from then on, a small boy with such a passion for horses that he gained fame as a jockey on Midwestern tracks long before he finished high school...
...other fruit on the family tree. That new spirit is due without any doubt to the presence of Pola Negri. She is not pretty the bathing beauty sense, yet it is perhaps her face which gives the tone to the whole picture. There is in it a look of passion and tragedy without which "The Woman on Trial" might be interchanged with any other similar picture and no one would care much, even if he noticed the difference,. But there is a difference, and it is just the difference between the good and the poor...
President Cosgrave's reply was stinging. With his fists clenched, his body trembling with suppressed rage and his face pale with passion, he denied Sean O'Kelley's charges and insinuations and defended his policy. "I yield to no one as an Irishman in my love for Ireland," he snapped. "For five years I have been working here in the interests of ... a free, independent Irish nation...
...wicked fellow. The difficulty of her position is that the buccaneer has scruples about innocent girls. But she overcomes these. Enchanted Isle. While a willowy debutante strives to elude an effete Italian Count, the robust forest ranger comes on from the West. He is a tenor; she a soprano. Passion's progress is recorded rather musically in "Close in Your Arms," "Voice of the High Sierras," "Enchanted Isle" and other duets. Ida Hoyt Chamberlain, concert singer, wrote it all-book, lyrics, music-and her friends produced it under an incognito of towering pretension, to wit, American Allied Arts...
...THEATRE IN LIFE?Nicolas Evreinov?Brentano ($3.50). M. Evreinov's Russian ingenuity has excelled in such varied activities as circus performing, archaeology, law, novels, history and flute-playing, but his chief passion and reputation are in the theatre. This book, a more or less formal attempt to enunciate a philosophy, elaborates Shakespeare's dictum about all the world being a stage. Poet Robert Burns would have been interested, for M. Evreinov touches also on the problem of seeing oneself as seen by others. "The Theatre of Oneself," says M. Evreinov, is conducted by every human being in all those acts...