Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could mix a cocktail as well as the veriest flapper of today. Dancing, as well as hurdling, was a passion with her. And she even hurdled over the tops of society's best ottomans and chairs, to the horror of maids and matrons more restrained than...
These literary jousters thrust and parry with no slight blows. Of Katherine Mansfield, Walpose observed with only thinly veiling suavity: "If you think her short stories to be 'as devoid of genuine imaginative passion as so many bond circulars' then I tell you (and here there is a personal assertion naked and unashamed) you don't know what genuine imaginative passion...
...passion of motor makers to improve their product, and do it in a hurry too, has created in Detroit deep interest in an lleged "mystery car," which is said to be revolutionary in design and about to be produced by a Detroit motor concern...
...over seventy years old, his entire life is devoted to affairs, which he loves with a passion, whether they be great or small: or, rather, there are none for him of this latter class." Indeed, neither business disasters which impaired his fortune, the bitter calumnies of a few political enemies, nor his private grief at the death of his wife and of his son Joseph, worn out in the service, could deter this stalwart patriot from giving the fullest measure of service to the cause in which he had a high and reverend faith...
...length. Born in 1833, at Stockholm, he was so delicate and sickly as a child that when his family moved to St. Petersburg it was feared that he would not survive. There, however, he grew into a nervous high-strung youth, who paradoxically combined extreme personal sensitiveness with a passion for explosives...