Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such words as "blastoderm", "sindoc," "peris," "parasang," "sarcenet," "teazel," "nullah," "cantatrice," "barracan," "sistrum," writhed and hissed in her verses. One poem began with the nebular hypothesis and ended with prohibition; others cantered with a Eugene Fieldian humor; still others coldly glowed with the passion-weary detachment of a woman who has had her fill of life and its motley follies. Critic-Poet Louis Untermeyer chortled with elation. Poet William Rose Benét wrote a preface. The English Society of Authors and Playwrights (of which Thomas Hardy is President) asked Nathalia Crane to join them...
...PASSION AND GLORY ? William Cummings?Knopf ($2.50). Lens, a young Norwegian in a New England fishing town, is frustrate, since his dumb passion has been denied by the woman he loves and harlots do not satisfy him. So he turns with a mystical simplicity to God. God gives Lens passion to win the woman he loves. But there is no glory; their son dies at birth. The sins of the fathers. . . . After a few years she dies, too, and then there is neither passion nor glory for Lens. At last he stumbles upon glory, finding that...
...alone for a whole summer, far in the California mountains with his sheep. He grows wilderness-mad. His only civilized emotion is a strange attachment to his herd. All summer long he makes only three acquaintances?a cougar, a prospector and the prospector's daughter. Successively, in unreasoning passion, he kills the first two and takes the last for his mate. The power of the book, the excuse for it, is that the author, once a sheepherder, treats the protagonist as he treats the beasts in the story, as a dumb brute suffering without understanding. It is not a comedy...
CRAIG'S WIFE-An intricate and amazingly well played study of a woman to whom love had changed into a deep passion for the ornaments and machinery of her cheerless household...
...ingenious fellow in my office prepared a fake 'diary' of a German soldier, who was supposed to have had to assist in boiling down some of his comrades. And it was planned that a certain correspondent who had a passion for German diaries should be allowed to 'discover' it. ... But I felt that the deception had gone far enough. . . . An error in the diary might have led to an exposure of the falsity, which would have imperiled the effectiveness of all British propaganda. ... It was never used and is now in the London War Museum...