Word: passional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repeal the Teachers' Oath Law in Massachusetts have proved the efficacy of the oath in turning college professors into rebels--a result the reactionary legislators could hardly have intended. A veritable War of Independence was fought with all of Boston either taking part or looking on. Broadsides of passion, eloquence, logic, ridicule were all fired at the law by the biggest of academic shots. But despite this unanimous support of the repeal bill, it is still in committee, and both the temper of the hearings and the composition of the House make its adoption unlikely...
...into tête-à-tête walks. Lewis, "deeply insincere," has more than one earmark of J. Middleton Murry, one of Lawrence's biographers. Others are Robert, a timid soul; his wife Hilda, who married him because Marius suggested it but who nurses a platonic passion for the Master; Mark, a bully; Johnny, a poet who is not a gentleman and is very self-conscious about it. Marius' bovine wife, Helga, feeds them all, pays little attention to their twitterings or shrieks. The colony is further complicated by the arrival of a young married couple, Lilly...
Stern's freedom from the stuffier forms of British insularity, will applaud her enthusiasm over the Grand Canyon, the Mt. Wilson Observatory, the Marx Brothers. Litterateurs will admire her fondness for Jane Austen, deprecate her passion for the Elsie Dinsmore books. Newsy nosers will note her family were well-to-do London
...Spirit of revenge. . . . Spirit of secrecy!" screamed the Orator, his passion rising. "Spirit of hatred! . . . Lack of sense began to triumph...
...spokesman for greedy groups" could fail to support Senator Black's stand for legislative inquiries. For years, in spite of perfect law enforcement against crooks, grafters, gangsters, and passion murderers, the real, big-shot law-breakers, men who did things on a large scale, have escaped not only with their lives, liberties, and reputations, but with fat fortunes, offices in Wall Street, houses with swimming-pools and hot baths on Long Island, innumerable servants, debutante daughters, jewel-laden side-kicks, clubs with arm-chairs and whiskey, in fact, all the good things in life, as well. Without such fearless, quiet...