Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uncertain with possible lectures as is the morning. Professor Wright is speaking on Moliere at 4.30 o'clock in Emerson D, as a part of the series on Great Authors. Professor Jeanroy is lecturing at the same time in Emerson D in French on "Le Mystere de la Passion...
...political marriage. But, at last, she was madly in love. Her lover was the Earl of Bothwell, recently married and known to have been implicated in her husband's murder. He was broad of shoulder, stout of limb, shaggy, stern, a hawk-headed man. To yield to this passion was fatal; but she yielded, conniving in her own abduction to hasten the marriage. Sir James Melville puts it bluntly: "The queen could not but marry him, seeing that he had ravished...
There are some personalities conjoined to such abilities that critics damn themselves for the faintness of their praise and strangle their vocabularies in ecstatic anguish at the failure of their word-slaves to express the frenzy of their passion...
What was the stature of the man Jesus? How tall was He? How sturdy or frail? Painters and sculptors have clouded over their ignorance by emphasizing His face, putting therein all the passion and pity or suffering within their abilities. His body they have made secondary, usually slim, occasionally even pudgy, sometimes tall, seldom short, according to the current ideas of ascetic beauty...
...Oberammergau, Herr Anton Lang, able Christus of the famed Passion Players, received word that Anton Lang Jr., his second son, now studying at the University of Munich, has accepted an invitation of Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass., to matriculate there next September...