Word: passion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upper Broadway, in the gaudy Sixth Avenue Sportland of Schork & Schaffer, in all the dark and smoky dens where New Yorkers drop hundreds of millions of nickels into coin machines and peep shows, the name of William Rabkin is great indeed. A fast-talking Jew of 40 with a passion for invention, William Rabkin gave the world the coin-operated electric digger. This glass-encased device has nervous metal claws on the end of a shaft which is manipulated by a row of dials outside. The shaft hangs over a pile of hard candies. With a little money...
...PASSION'S PILGRIMS?Jules Remains? Knopf...
...Class B" ("more or less objectionable because of their possible suggestiveness or vulgarity or sophistication or lack of modesty. Neither approved nor forbidden but for adults only") were 32 films including Belle of the Nineties, The Gay Divorcee, The Merry Widow, Cleopatra, Crime Without Passion and We Live Again...
Born shortly after the first Battle of Bull Run, Frederick Waugh ran away from a number of schools until allowed to study painting, first in Philadelphia, later at the old Julian Academy in Paris. The sea has always been his passion. Living in Great Britain for 13 years, he began in the early 1900's painting the same sort of marinescapes that he still turns out. His sales began almost at once and medals and prizes followed soon after...
...ladies who chuckled and wiped their eyes appreciatively over All Passion Spent will rub their spectacles and frown before they get far into The Dark Island. A creative experiment of a more ambitious sort than Novelist Sackville-West has tried hitherto, The Dark Island adds a dubious but disturbing hypothesis in the case of woman as she might be in a world that...