Word: passion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capable of a great passion, Jimmy?" she asked...
Ahead of grouse and postage stamps, the royal yacht Britannia is His Majesty's passion. This year, during the Cowes Regatta, English newspapers concealed, but Scottish ones reported, the annoyance of the Cowes populace that George V did not leave his yacht during the whole of "Cowes Week," and the fury of members of the Royal Yacht Club at the King's absenting himself from their annual dinner. Not even Her Majesty could prevail upon Yachtsman George, who was having a gorgeous sea time. To soothe the proletariat Queen Mary went shopping alone several times in Cowes, bought all sorts...
...affairs with men. Then she met her husband's gamekeeper, Mellors. and for the first time in her life fell really in love. When she knew she was going to have a baby she left Clifford, who would not really mind, as he was beginning to have an infantile passion for his middle-aged nurse. The story ends with Connie making plans to go away somewhere, sometime, with Mellors. Aldous Huxley calls Lady Chatierley's Lover "a strange and beautiful book; but inexpressibly sad."What he would call this version of it will doubtless never be printed...
...vigorously led his country into the World War. Rhodes Scholars know that he is Chancellor of Oxford University. Sportsmen and naturalists may have heard that he is an ardent fisherman and a lover of wild life, but few are aware of the extent to which he has carried this passion, of the work and patience the weak-eyed old gentleman (he is 70) has expended to tame wild fowl to the point where he could learn facts about them which naturalists have been able only to surmise. In the September-October issue of Natural History, published this week, Lord Grey...
...critics. The brevity and simplicity of his narrative should please unexacting readers. The theme: Sheila as a girl had been in love with Gordon, but he had gone away, she had married Dermot. Though she wanted children, none came. Then Gordon appeared again. As a result of their brief passion Sheila bore a son, Barry. Gordon at first knew nothing of his existence; everyone but Sheila thought he was Dermot's son. Years later, his mother and father dead, Barry met Gordon's daughter Meredith. Not knowing they were half-brother and sister they fell in love. Poet...