Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sargent was of Maine Puritan stock. His bodily vigor and passion for exercise revealed themselves during his school days. As a lad of 20, he was invited to direct the gymnasium of Bowdoin College. He accepted, sat to a tutor when not teaching the Bowdoinians to flex their limbs, became a Freshman himself. That was in 1871. The next year, Yale College, awakening to the new movement for physical education, sent for Sargent. Without interrupting his studies at Bowdoin, he supervised both the Yale and Bowdoin gymnasia for three years. In 1875, he was graduated by Bowdoin, entered the Yale...
...famed autobiography referred to her stepson, Herbert, as the poet of the Asquith family. Poet Asquith, who is also a barrister, has written a story of violence and mystery. Perhaps, in his decision to burst into prose, he was guided by his father's self-admitted passion for mystery stories; but certainly he has not been able to capture the ex-Premier's brilliant style, nor distinguish himself by wielding an audacious pen after the manner of his stepmother. Wind's End is well written in good English ; it is a book full of horror, ghosts...
FATA MORGANA−Saucy Hungarian comedy, depicting the effects of the heat of the grand passion, for one night, on the half-baked young mind...
...called her his "Divine Lady," to be the Lady of the Embassy at the British Legation in Naples and dazzling centre of its brilliance, to be the intimate of the intriguing and lovely Neapolitan Queen, Marie Caroline, sister to Marie Antoinette of tragic memory, and lastly to be the passion and inspiration of Nelson, hero of Trafalgar. Illiterate, geistlos, breathtakingly beautiful, object of adoration and of scorn, Emma Hamilton's star flashed through triumphant, troublous skies, and two centuries have not quenched its sullied splendor...
...deep love and is in turn neither loved nor hated as Trotzky is.... He never loses his head nor gets in a fit of panic, never fools himself by magnifying irritating details into devastating evils, nor by dismissing serious difficulties as trifles, like so many of his colleagues. Passion has no place in his thinking. Orthodox and insurgent will listen to him with respect and attention because he always has something of value to impart to both...