Word: passion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discussion has been said in connection with the Oath. On occasions both sides have displayed quiet and mature judgment and scholarly interpretation, as for instance Professor Morison's testimony before the legislative committee; and at other times the dead cats have been sailing across the Gardner Auditorium with passion and fury. Nothing more can be added in either direction...
Crimes of passion are lots of fun. Sometimes they do not even have to have ladies, lovely or otherwise, in them, to have a certain element of esoteric fascination for the casual breakfast reader. Sometimes they don't even have to be crimes of passion. If it's just a nice clean, complete job, like a compulsory quadruple crossing of the Styx, it's enough to ensure most of the front page of the Hub City's news vending organizations. In fact we strongly suspect that the men in charge of make-up on the local journals aren't sufficiently...
...Passion and the Press...
Zion's usually profitable building industry, arrived in time for the opening Passion Play, now performed by 300 pious members of the Community. He was sure that this year the show would gross $15,000. Zion Passion Players pray to God before every rehearsal, every performance. Their prayers have not always prevented mishaps. Chief worry is whether the wires will hold fast in the smash climax of the Play's 27 scenes, the Ascension of Christ, whose role is played by a 24-year-old office-supplies salesman named Le Roy John Peacy. Once a wire broke...
Connoisseurs of such Catholic Passion Plays as the Union City production would have noticed several striking differences at Zion. To begin with, Zion's Passion Play is not strictly a Passion Play, i. e., it does not concern itself solely with the agony and death of Christ, but is a sort of theatrical biography of The Savior, beginning with the Sermon on the Mount and concluding, unconventionally, with the spectacular, if mechanically precarious Ascension. Mary, Mother of Jesus, instead of being young and comely, is white-haired, stout and comely as played by Blanche Kessler, telephone operator...