Word: passion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...municipality of Higginsville, where he falls in love with and marries the eldest daughter of the town's captain of all industries, J. L. Higgins. The attractions of life in Higginsville as the manager of the Higgins Box Factory are not sufficient to divert Rogers from his all-consuming passion for fine horses and when he gets possession of Broadway Bill, a truly superb animal, his business efficiency drops far below the expectations of his father-in-law. It finally becomes a question of the horse or submission to the rigors of the business. Rogers makes his break and puts...
...cronies are Steelman Myron Taylor, Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament. Fabulous stories surround his passion for outdoor life. He owns four miles of trout stream in New York's gamey Beaver Kill, issued gold-engraved membership cards to a half-dozen friends. In North Carolina "Joe" Knapp owns Knotts Island, a 5,000-acre preserve. Becoming attached to the country and its citizenry, he spent some $500,000 to give it a school system, vast sums for roads and other improvements. Once when "Joe" Knapp and a party of friends were dashing in a sea-sled to his Canadian...
Details of the Eleusinian ceremonies remain wreathed in shadow. From inscriptions, works of art, and allusions of old chroniclers and dramatists it appears that the mystae or votaries made annual pilgrimages from Athens, watched some sort of passion play, witnessed a parade of holy objects, heard a discourse by a hierophant. The cult was centred around a legend of the Goddess Demeter, who sorrowed for her abducted daughter, searched for her, sat by a sacred well...
Welfare work was her first passion. Almost as soon as she got out of Spence School she made her father buy an old house near his summer place at Prides Crossing, Mass., as a vacation home for Boston factory girls, among whom Daughter Helen organized clubs known as The True Blue Girls. During and after the War she took boatloads of supplies and clothing to France. Lately she has made the Frick Art Library and the Frick Museum her career. Because she felt that the elderly Bridge, whom she described as "somebody hired to show people through the galleries...
Acting, however, is not the grand passion of Mrs. Norris' life. Her paramount pastime is croquet, at which she excels. The Norris summer ranch, La Estancia, at Saratoga, Calif., is virtually built around the croquet court, which is lined with floodlights for night games. The Norris croquet is an invention of their own, combining features of billiards and golf. Played with no boundaries, it is a matter of composition rubber balls, mallets of snakewood made in Manhattan. Mrs. Norris can get inordinately angry at her croquet partners when they are bad. Guests on the 200-acre estate...