Word: passional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ried, his passion lingers with still delusive sway...
...until the next morning was he shown the folly of his ways, when a soul-stirring expression of sympathy poured out of his mail-box. A distant collegiate acquaintance, driven by passion to the extremity of correspondence, pointed out how grossly maligned Harvard had been, how irreparably besmudged her lovely escutcheon. "Demand satisfaction at once!" the letter urged. "Oh, dear, if such a thing should happen to Yale...
Westernization. The King of Kings combines his knowledge of time-honored Iranian political methods with a passion for reform and an incorrigible interest in blue prints. Despiser of meddling, dictating European governments, he nevertheless admires Western habits and dress, Western technical achievements. Just as Kamal Atatürk had ordained in Turkey a few years before, Reza Shah Pahlavi ordered jail sentences for turban-wearers, forbade veils for Iranian women. Robed, turbaned mullahs were obliged to carry licenses. The Iranian habit of contracting temporary marriages, sanctioned by the Shiah sect of Mohammedanism, was so curtailed by the Shah that polygamy...
...efforts to streamline anything else. As redrafted and passed by the Senate, the Reorganization Bill's principal provisions allowed the President to shift executive agencies with certain important exceptions, appoint one man to replace the present three-man Civil Service Commission, choose six administrative assistants "with a passion for anonymity," created a Department of Welfare and rearranged the Federal accounting system. The last thing in the world the Reorganization Bill represented was an effort on the part of Franklin Roosevelt to make himself a dictator. That it was attacked as precisely this proved that to a large section...
Fish said the President "has an obsession for power that amounts to a virtual passion and a consuming appetite that keeps demanding more and more from Congress. President Roosevelt has had far more power than any other president, yet he is solely responsible for the present depression...