Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dublin a full and lengthy account of a football match, presumably played in or near that city. The author, Michael Concannen, did not confine himself to any mere description of the game, however. Since he was writing in verse he found it necessary to include much romance and passion in his tale, after the fashion of present day scenario writers. He wishes it clearly understood that the "Brickleys" and "Mahans" of his day did not play so much "for the honor of the school" as they did for their "Norahs" and their "Floras...
Then Alan, 21 years old, came back to Findellen, matured, attractive, humorous but with all the unbalanced egotism of his childhood. With him came Bayard Van Schoeck, friendly patrician. Alan's reawakened passion frightened Julie. She found protection in the steady strength of Van Schoeck. The climax came in a meeting between Alan and her father. Sparks flew. The old man hit the boy with her parasol, then collapsed under stress of emotion...
...some men have a passion for horses, and some for women, so have I a passion for locomotives," Honegger tells us. He even worships monster engines, their speed, their strength, their noise. His Pacific 231-played recently by Mr. Damrosch's orchestra in Manhattan-was inspired by, and dedicated to Engine No. 231. Should a real, live locomotive burst into the concert hall, the effect would be no less terrifying than that produced by Honegger's short piece, so vivid is his portraiture...
...refused, and Hogarth's sister rejected Frankl's amorous advances. Things took place-Hogarth flogged Frankl; Hogarth was convicted, falsely, of murder; Hogarth was sent to Colmoor prison. Rebekah Frankl, beautiful, barbaric, with earrings as big as hoops, flung a red flower with a black heart of passion to Hogarth on his conviction...
...Congo jungles. As he went, he collected things-anything that reflected the life and thought of primitive races. There were queer barbaric ornaments; shining, murderous weapons; primitive carvings. Also, he saw strange sights, saw battle and death, saw human beings stripped to aboriginal essentials of life and passion. For his own amusement, he liked to take a stub of pencil and stray sheet of paper and sketch roughly the things that interested...