Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tides of Passion. When a young man is so constructed that women simply cannot resist his "Do you love me?" and when such a youth is a traveling man, there are bound to be complications. This young man, traveling the world over, left a trail of bleached and broken hearts behind him. Finally, he is washed up on a rocky island and the real struggle begins. One of the two women has a child by him and the other one hasn't. Finally he dies and the women drown their loneliness in mutual lamentations. One of the more unfortunate...
...later years, he worked much in charcoal, in watercolor. His murals have manifested his passion for pure beauty in line, form and color. His industry never dwindled; it remained to the last as great as that of an artist who would never achieve anything. This fact was pungently observed by a woman who came upon Sargent doing a watercolor by a Hampshire wayside, stood, for several minutes, watching him. "Why do people imagine they can paint? There's a man whose hair is turning gray...
...pulverizing, and the more so because the tale in which the hideous deed is done is a first rate piece of story telling in itself, keenly alive, and crowded with imaginative touches. The thing is studded with gems of Rabelaisian understatement, and it moves with a gallop of rustic passion...
...stifling, are sincere. The story itself, slightly artificial but cleverly told, is a product of older Harvard : Elam Dunster, great-great-grandsired by a Harvard president returns to his professor-father from a sophisticated childhood in Europe with his runaway mother and her lover. He discovers a quixotic passion for an absent professor's young wife. No Brahmin ban, but his mother's wisdom, restrains him from "rescuing" the girl, eloping with her, in the name of Individualism. The mother points out that such revolts, to be satisfactory, must be purely selfish...
...splendid feeling for the fitness of things inspires that ever growing class of intellectuals who adorn the backs of their slickers with wholesome sentiments of tender passion. And how the boys are learning to draw, too: fine big letters, girls' names, and even an occasional picture bring back sweet memories of rainy days at High School. It hurt a man awfully to have to stop ornamenting his slicker when he came East from Wide-Wide Plains, Kansas, and some even wandered as far as New Jersey so that they could continue this normal practice...