Word: passion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They had just had to leave one job in a hurry because Lennie's passion for petting things had been misunderstood by a frightened little girl. On the new ranch everything went all right at first. Lennie was a terrific worker, did beautifully as long as George was at hand to tell him what to do. It looked for a while as if they could really make their stake, buy their little farm, settle down to make their dream come true. But then things began to go wrong. The boss's son was an ugly customer...
...legislation is concerned, the Teachers' Oath Bill is doubtless a dead letter. Educators raise their right hands and then continue teaching just as they always did. It is curious how unquestionably patriotic legislators can so easily lose sight of the fundamentals of their country's constitution in the passion of their patriotism...
After the Milton appearance singers will be at the Brooks School in North Andover on March 10, and in Sanders Theatre for the Harvard Teachers' Association on March 20. A rendering of the St. Matthew Passion, with the Boston Symphony, March 26, will be followed the next day in a special recording for Victor Records. Then comes the Spring trip from April 1 to April...
...sublimation of Gypsy passion and Teutonic sentiment. But Herr Lehar is also a businessman who runs a theatre in Vienna and takes seriously his affiliation with Rotary International. The great majority of his best scores were written more than a decade ago and this does not prevent him from selling them over & over along with inferior latter-day creations. That Frederika-a perfunctory, old-fashioned operetta about the life & loves of Goethe which was first produced seven years ago-does not come up to the stratospheric standards of such earlier Lehar work as The Merry Widow (1905), is a loss...
Wang the farmer now becomes the patrician head of the House of Lung. He returns to the country. He buys the Great House. He cuts off his queue in the western fashion. He dons silk. He forgets the land in his passion for Lotus (Tilly Losch), a sing-song girl whom he makes his second wife. To her he gives 0-lan's two pearls...