Word: passional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Favorite designer of many U. S. dress buyers is Elsa Schiaparelli, daughter of an Italian archaeologist, niece of an Italian astronomer, whose passion for curious buttons, hooks, clamps, clips and other fastenings has had a more direct influence on women's clothes than that of any other modern designer...
...late Charles Fort, born in Albany in 1874, was a short story writer who developed a hobby into a passion. He became a contumacious heckler of science. For 23 years he grubbed in libraries and museums for reports of curious phenomena which science could not explain, made bales of notes from which he compiled chaotic books such as Wild Talents, The Book of the Damned, Lo! New Lands. Charles Fort demanded that science explain why statues shed blood, why frogs and periwinkles fall to earth in rainstorms, why eels appear in landlocked water. What about the swan which mysteriously appeared...
...successful businessman, Collector Wise succumbed to the bibliophilic passion early, sometimes went without his supper to buy some treasurelet from a secondhand bookstall. As his London produce business prospered, Thomas James Wise bought more & more books, became known as Britain's foremost book collector and bibliographer. He was a friend of the late great Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad. He was frequently consulted as an authority on literary forgeries. Intimates smiled to each other about his harmless little habit of snitching lumps of sugar from cafe tables and hiding them away in a tin. At 74, dome...
Sirs: TIME, Aug. 9, p. 53. Let us also be competitors of Ghosts Baer & Woods. Our slogan: "Anonymity our passion...
General Chu Teh looks like a peasant and takes his communism literally. His only weakness is a passion for basketball. At the Communist capital of Yenan the generalissimo could generally be found after hours at one or another of the city's eight basketball courts, waiting humbly in line for some team captain to pick him for a team. Despite his enthusiasm, the generalissimo is a poor hand at dribbling and passing. Very often he must sit with the subs. To his followers last week General Chu sent this message...