Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dead when, after he had married Mildred Ashley, he learned that Nina had gone away to bear his son. By then his marriage was a failure, though he did not know that it failed because he would have been revolted to find in a fellow aristocrat like Mildred the passion he sought in life. And by then Mildred too was carrying a son of his. They had to stay married...
...western town in the throes of a revival meeting is the locale of the play. A strapping shouting preacher (Crane Wilbur) is king of this overwrought community for the time. A tired, unhappy woman (Alice Brady) falls in love with him and mistakes her passion for religious ecstasy. As her mind falters under the furious lash of her misinterpreted desire, she kills her stupid husband. Then she goes...
Stout blows were struck last week on all sides of the one issue which generates passion of every sort-personal, economic, religious, political, sociological. Up in Michigan, the 21 young spinsters of Kappa Kappa Gamma of Adrian College reported to the Dean that ten of their men friends had done a little drinking at their sorority dance. Proclaimed the spinsters: "We, the members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority, hereby go on record as being opposed to the use of liquor in any form, and we furthermore state that we believe the ten boys who attended our dancing party were...
...actress and a disinherited Baltimore mooncalf. The child was sheltered, not adopted, by hardheaded John Allan of Richmond. He was insecure in a town of lordly livers. And what went deeper, at home and at school his mother's calling was made his shame. Psychoanalysis calls his loyal passion for her dead purity a "fixation." Another woman once laid a kind hand upon his head, and upon her too he "fixed" after her death...
Explanations abound, correcting many a roseate popular illusion, alleviating the author's feelings and his passion for unvarnished verity. They are mostly revelations of people, beheld in their reactions to McDougall or his cartoons of them. J. P. Morgan Sr. was small-minded about his big nose; Rudyard Kipling, rude; Tom Nast, vain and petty; Mark Twain, grumpily grudging; Thomas Wanamaker, "a nasty little commercial person"; Woodrow Wilson, "a sort of swift floor-walker's smirk"; Joseph Pulitzer, a social climber, ingenious blasphemer ? for instance, the epithet, "too inde-god-dam-pendent...