Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, the Giornale d'Italia said of ex-Premier Giolitti: "Certainly Signor Giolitti is not in Rome to admire the snow-covered city. Signor Giolitti has but one passion, that passion is politics...
Rivalry develops among members of the gang for Esther Brinn, 16, respected by all. Meyer becomes jealous. The passion persists even after she joins settlement work and until she marries Barney Finn, Irish reformer-a scandal to all the Jews...
Craftsmen from Oberammergau visited Manhattan and in a short time sold $65,000 of their wares. The craftsmen were Passion Players because in the year 1167 the great emperor Barbarossa founded the play and the people of Oberammergau solemnly vowed to dramatize the "Passion" of Christ once every decade-a promise which was broken only by the Great War. Between plays, these men ply their trades of potters, carvers, painters...
...considered the majesty of the unseen, and made appropriate conjectures as to what it might be; and some men tried to arrive at the same discovery by the careful study of that which is actually seen and knowable. There came a time when men were filled with a peculiar passion for applying names to things; and accordingly the first method was called religion and the second science, and man forgot that they were one and the same thing from the very beginning. The great moral to be drawn from the present controversy is not to "keep distinct things apart...
Andreas Lang played Peter in 1922. Illustrative of the simplicity of the Passion Players in private life is the fact that Andreas Lang is known as one who "quite willingly drinks a glass of Bavarian beer with a visitor...