Word: passional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems to be all too easy to arouse prejudice and passion against the people who so long ago struggled out of the ford of the Jabbok to meet Esau, the hairy man. . . .* Today the Jew in certain areas is a political eunuch, a social outcast, to be dragged down like...
With rising passion, Maitre Aymoz got into his stride: "As the late Lord Dewar once facetiously remarked : 'In the old days a meal was opened with prayer; nowadays in many homes it is opened with a can-opener!' " But Aymoz was not above paying tribute to "one of the finest and most succulent, and nutritive dishes in the world'' - the U. S. hamburger...
...Duke founded the "Sauvegarde" as a socialite, money-making organization to eke out Government care of French art treasures, of which he is a noted connoisseur. The particular passion of the Due de Trévise is for painting of that period when Napoleon's eagles had deflected the operatic ardor of the French revolution into the ardor of Empire...
Bound together by their common passion for the courage of the gamecock, the coast-to-coast cocking fraternity ranges from millionaires to moochers. Top crust are the socialite members of exclusive cock clubs who hold tournaments on their estates for a pedigreed handful of their friends. Bottom crust are the bands of shady promoters who operate in sinister back-road barnyards or city hideaways- sometimes traveling in a circuit with a portable pit that folds up as simply as a bridge table. But 90% of the U. S. cocking fraternity are plain, everyday citizens...
...remained in ivory towers. But it is doubtful if this grim invitation had as much influence on them as Man's Hope will have. Whether the life of action would benefit all writers, there is no doubt that it has inspired Malraux, has given him a subject, a passion in expressing it, an imaginative intensity unmatched by any novelist of his generation...