Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Voice (with suppressed passion but pompous withal) Look here, I'm a member of Parliament. I've been...
...there is a wonderfully sweeping crescendo of magnificent passion and as it touches the heights Peter finds self, belief, and love...
...their purposes, warranted to please their audience, of none too recent vintage. Instead, the players at the St. James have acted, for the most part, pieces seen in Boston no longer, ago than last season, hardly more than two seasons old in the whole American theatre. "Scandal," "Clarence," "The Passion Flower," "The Hottentot" --to name four of their five plays thus far--have all been so chosen. Resurrecting "Mamma's Affair," spying out "The Big Game," choosing the pieces aforesaid, the St. James escapes the rut of the sure and the standardized, adds to the current interest of the Bostonian...
...This witty generalization," the weekly observes, "is obviously unfair and misleading, but it indicates how learned Europeans regard our current passion for attempting to teach in our colleges subjects that are far better learned in the school of experience." While students for the ministry, medicine, law, and the teaching profession have long found preparation at college, the modern university -- the state university in particular -- has added to its other activities a score of quasi-technical fields unthought of a century ago. The sciences, business, engineering, and agriculture, to cite a few examples, have now been accorded a place in academic...
...often charged with being a fomenter of disputes because a law suit gives him business and enables him to earn money, but the good lawyer is a peace-maker. Men come to him inflamed with passion, feeling that their rights have been trampled upon and that they must have what belongs to them at the expense perhaps of long litigation. The lawyer in the first place is a buffer, because after he has heard the story he tells them of the various steps that must be taken to assert their rights and the length of time required for each...