Word: passion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there must first be good national work, and that can only be secured by union. Disunited peoples are weak, and weak peoples are a prey and a danger." With his voice breaking, little Gaston reached his climax: "To desire peace is not to obtain it. Let us oppose to passion our will for peace, but let us support it with an unbreakable resolution to hold force in check whenever it is not in the service of right." Reporters who have seen many state funerals in Paris in the past five years, noted one novelty: three figures in long white sheepskin...
Divorced. George Galt Bourne, 47, son of the late Singer Sewing Machine President Gilbert Bourne, father of Cinemactress Whitney Bourne (Crime Without Passion); by Nancy Atterbury Potter Bourne, 30, Manhattan socialite, his second wife; in Reno...
...sorely needing the astringent blue pencil of a copy desk. He seemed to be arguing that had the boy had more money, he would not have got himself or his girl into trouble. Clearest point: "I am inclined to agree with the French that crimes which concern love and passion and the ambition of youth are nothing which the law, in its cold, calculating and in the main commercial mood, should have anything to do with...
...slowed up by government policies. . . . If confidence were restored in the securities of Liberty we should move forward irresistibly." Though he does not believe that revolution has yet "swept the United States . . . there are some who are trying to bring it about." With real, unconsciously revolutionary passion he prophesies: "The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seeks to limit...
...been more soundly affronted in print than it was last fortnight. And it was no unintended insult. Says Author Maurice Samuel: "I think a good slogan for my novel might be, 'A Novel that Women Will Hate.' " Propaganda for masculine superiority, Beyond Woman is written with a passion that some readers will think proud, others despairing. Author Samuel's theme, that man's spirit is continually struggling against the earthward pull of woman's nature, will tread uncomfortably hard on many a U. S. husband's tender toe. If wives are so ill-advised...