Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge, having received the letter, and having been advised that Mr. Pinchot's Prohibition passion had been mixed with senatorial soup, could endure no more. He, indignant, wrote to the Senate of the U. S. a letter which caused that august herd to snort and trumpet like so many hippopotami surprised at the feeding hour...
...same token, Irene despised the flesh. Her father's memory was an abomination-not less so since her sister was every inch his daughter. She made her prayers with the passion wherewith they loved...
...they speak unkindly of their Maker. At times the play sounds like Faust being run backwards. It is simply propaganda for the author's private views on practically everything. Fritz Lieber in the leading role is enamored of his interminable speeches. It is a case of the drooling passion...
...words towards the finish of this new study of the struggle between materialism and the spirit, and that means only half done. While in Italy, he worked every day, from early morning until late afternoon. Mr. Norris does not write with the flow and the passion of his wife, who publishes, as a rule, one novel a year and a certain number of short stories...
...paradoxical titles are now in vogue on the screen, following the example of Playwright Shipman on the stage. Shipman might have written this cinema of the master thief's daughter who met the wealthy young man she was to rob, and turned from grand larceny to the grand passion. It is a machine-made picture, and Dorothy Dalton as Leah is only an effigy pulled around by a director...