Word: passion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strakacz, who plays bridge with him on long jumps, and Piano-tuner Joubert, who carries around an atlas and answers questions about the populations and industries of the towns they visit, the most indispensable member of this staff is his private chef. With romantic Paderewski, food is a romantic passion. He is partial to lamb, chicken and turkey, worships caviar, pheasant and sweet champagne. If he is about to visit a town famous for some particular dish, he always telegraphs ahead to have some of it specially prepared for him. On concert days he lunches at 4 p.m., dines...
...Kenneth Collins and Macy's parted company. The Straus Brothers, Macy's principal owners, never liked the Collins passion for personal publicity, which included morsels such as a debate with Novelist Faith Baldwin on "Is Charm Vital to Business Women's Success?" Returning from Europe one time, he gave out a half-column interview which was published with a two-column picture. Below was the notation: "Also aboard was Percy S. Straus, vice president of R. H. Macy...
...masks for babies. Laid in 1936-37, it tells what happens when Major "Rusty" Rockingham, bachelor scion of an aristocratic British military family, falls in love with the dazzling American wife of his hardbitten colonel. Nothing happens: at the last moment both Rockingham and Camilla renounce their honorable passion for the greater honor of Empire. The Wally Simpson case, which breaks simultaneously, makes a well-pointed contrast...
...recent letter from a young lady to one of us was concluded in what we thought was a most unusual and interesting manner. Quote: "Gooey Gobs of Purple Passion...
...more than 6,000 people write to the Voice of Experience each day, ask for help and advice. They write to the station on which they hear him or to a Manhattan Post Office box address. The location of his home and his office he keeps secret. His passion for anonymity goes so deep that he claims that even members of his family heard the Voice on the air for years before they knew his identity. His business acquaintances call him the Voice. That is the way he signs most of the letters he writes, and his briefcase is initialed...