Word: passional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frenzied Passion." Four steel strikers were convicted for their part in the Republic Steel Corp. bombing in Warren, Ohio six weeks ago. In sentencing them Warren's Common Pleas Court Judge Lynn B. Griffith rebuked them as much in the name of Labor as in the name of Law: "In your frenzied passion you have violated the law, insulted the dignity and decency of the State of Ohio, endangered the lives and property, and overwhelmed this peaceable and quiet community by your indefensive course of conduct. . . . No labor union in our land approves or condones the erratic course...
Listeners at Hollywood Bowl concerts last week had only to turn their eyes to a hillside 1,000 feet away to see scenes from the life and passion of Christ, enacted for the 15th consecutive season by the Pilgrimage Players whose audience in turn could dimly hear the Bowl concert. Most conspicuously attentive of the Bowl audience was Actress Ann Harding who from her seat up front never took her eyes off the lank, gloomy-looking young man who conducted all five scores from memory. When, at the end of Scenes Historiques, the audience called Janssen back nine times...
...plenty of money to study, compose, paint, model, indulge her taste for exotic instruments including Japanese "fish-heads," tiny, castinet-like instruments which priests are supposed to tap continuously near their ears to drive out all but religious thoughts. Drums have long been Miss Montgomery's passion, and for years she would not let her pupils practice with anything else...
Voluptuous, invitational Mae West, public passion of 50 million movie-going males, had to do last week the one thing every middle-aged woman hates most to do: admit having reached her middle forties. And she had to admit the other one thing that Mae West least wished to admit: that she is married...
...person either to train or to 'influence' young men. No amount of good talk now or hereafter about the 'duty of the citizen towards the general government' will ever do away with the effect of his example.... No crime against society to which faction or sophistry or passion can tempt will ever equal that to the commission of which he has devoted the last four years of his life. Unless his first appearance in the college is marked by a frank and hearty act of repentance, the influence of his character, on which his votaries now rely...