Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...books and letters of value, a million and a half dollars seems a high price for such relies as those with which Dr. Rosenbach returned. Death masks are ornamental, of course, and a "fine Holland shirt" would probably survive at least one session with the washerwoman: but what secret passion could be satisfied by a "picket containing Napoleon's Hair", and a mummified tendon from the body of the Emperor, in a strange little box with a glass window", is hard for the layman to under stand. Moments of so distinctly personal a character might better have been decently buried...
...Coolidge invited a few guests to come to a showing of a cinema "Passion Play," directed by Mr. Blanchard of the Interior Department...
...World; in fact the stern-eyed Puritans were wont to frown upon it as the very text book of the devil himself. Even Thomas Jefferson, though a Virginian and a liberal democrat, felt called upon to declare that "a great obstacle to good education is the inordinate passion prevalent for novels and the time lost in that reading which should be instructively employed." It would be no little shock to the presidential educator to scan the reading lists of English...
...instance, dying in the Roncesvalles, is far more appealing to the imagination than any wholly man made fairy tale. If one can believe, no matter how faintly, in what one reads and hears, interest increases to a surprising extent. While it is of course impossible to expect a sudden passion for the study of Greek similar to that which seized Italy during the Renaissance, it is not unreasonable to predict that the perusal of the Iliad and the Odyssey may be taken up in future with a slightly greater degree of enthusiastic abandon than has prevailed heretofore...
...reproach. It is a natural, unfaltering study of sex as a cobra?a snake which fascinates and then devours the great white bull, in this case a strapping athlete. All the energy which he develops swinging an oar as a champion Yale rower seems to turn to passion at the swing of a skirt. A woman's eye can wilt him more easily than a burning...