Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French have a passion for pulling things down, but it is not their strong point. I should be glad if the statue King George on the Bowling Green in New York were still standing today--then I should know which George he was. It was destroyed during the Revolution...
...obvious, moreover, that the murals do perpetuate the feeling aroused in the heat of the fast war, and I should think that it would be a very high consideration for those fortunate people who are supposed to hold aloof from the worst phases of mob passion, to do everything possible to banish every trace of such an attitude in the interest of the future of mankind...
...snakebite. Throughout this silly, badly directed, exciting picture Mme. Baclanova depicts an unpleasant character by wearing beautiful clothes, telling love stories, singing in a dramatic soprano voice that was once justly celebrated in Moscow. Silliest shots: the hysterical colonist who complains that Africa is strangling him; Baclanova whimpering with passion to the strophe of African drums...
Rickenbacker Field, as all airmen know, is at Sioux City, Iowa. Ace Wolff happened by that city as manager of the Freiburg Players, touring the U. S. with their Passion Play (TIME, May 13). Ace Wolff and the Fassnacht family of Freiburg, Germany, who dominate the cast of the Passion Play, are old acquaintances...
...Congressman Douglass has so much passion on tap why not use some of it for the benefit of East Boston. Why not blast the Elevated for the way it laid tracks in the Bennington boulevard, destroying the beauty of a highway that cost $750.000? Why not roar at Mayor Nichols for cancelling the taxes of the East Boston Land Co, to the amount of one hundred fifty-two thousand dollars? Why not condemn the outrageous bathing facilities for the little children at Wood Island, where the bathhouses is on the edge of a dirty pool, a breeder of typhoid...