Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MacDonald says arbitration is justice without passion. I agree. But you cannot have justice without some force behind it. We must combine right and might. We must make what is mighty, just; and what is just, mighty. If we are to give to people what they desire, if we are to save them a repeti tion of their sufferings, we have got to provide for their security...
...Knowing well the public's passion for decking out their automobiles with pennants, posters, pasters, the Jantzen Knitting Mills, Inc., began last June issuing red bathing-girl pasters to automobile agencies and garages. Though no prominent printing appeared on the pasters, they were advertisements for Jantzen swimming-wear for women. When slim, beauti-formed bathing girls proved popular, the company then tried out a clumsy, fat, comic mermodel for use on trucks, flivvers, etc. Circulation: 100,000 fat; 300,000 thin...
Koussevitzky has always been more concerned with the reality of achievement than with the appearance of it. For diverse interests he substitutes his great and lonely passion; he indulges no hobbies, tolerates in himself no eccentricities. In countenance, he is grave; in dress and manner, he resembles a cosmopolitan man of business. Only his hands and eyes admit the implication that this business has to do with Art. He was born in Tver, in Northern Russia, and received his first employment as double bass in the Moscow Imperial Opera. He rose to become a conductor and toured Europe with...
...known. It now includes a great admiration for Miss Cleghorn, although many of her opinions are far from my own. Here is a liberal, almost a radical mind, finely tempered by New England sanity and balance. It is a combination, rare in literature, perhaps rarer still in teaching. Her passion for humanity, tinged with mysticism, makes her verse memorable, and I imagine that as her work as a teacher develops, she will add not a few disciples to her already large list of friends...
...plea of kleptomania was entered by the defense and medical evidence also was introduced to show that the Baroness had an uncontrollable passion for pearls; but despite the fact that she owned a large palace in Grätz and many houses in Vienna, she was found guilty...