Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bowed to the audience. The audience assembled in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, applauded loudly. The conductor turned to the orchestra-it was the Philharmonic Orchestra. He was new to it and to the audience. He stood poised, at once elastic and tense, as if he were restraining a great passion...
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS - Also Eugene O'Neill. A bitter tale of heedless passion bumping into the stone walls of New England environment and character...
...informing and accusing body without whose previous action no person charged with a felony, except in certain very special cases, could be put on trial. It has always been considered a means of protecting the citizen against unfounded accusations whether "directed by the Government or prompted by partisan passion or private enmity." The effort in many communities is to have grand jury panel made up of leading citizens and to have inclusion in rolls a mark of honor. In most states the substitution of an information by a public official for an indictment a grand jury requires an of amendment...
...true story of a woman's consuming passion for a man. The Cobra Woman charms with the fascination of the snake and the subtlety of the vampire. She deals with secret emotions...
Such, at least, is the way the program feels about the leading lady in "Cobra", now playing at the Plymouth Theatre. The audience was obviously much of the same mind, for it found the emotions anything but secret, and led on the consuming passion with relish. The audience devoured the Cobra's every move; it tolerated the other players. After her cremation, the other players. After her cremation, the situation became powerful enough to keep everything on the run, including the playwright. He put up a game fight, however, until the situation got the better...