Word: passional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French player bit a Hungarian in the arm. More remarkable than the games themselves was the behavior of the guests, whose antics, touched by the sparkle of a gala sports event, kept transatlantic cables buzzing through the week. ¶In nearby Oberammergau, famed Anton Lang, Christus of the Passion Play, grew excited over radio accounts, went over to Garmisch to see what they were all about. An expert winter sportsman, he watched the fancy skaters, wagged his grey beard with approval when Germany's Karl Schafer got the gold medal. ¶U. S. Columnist Westbrook Pegler arrived from London...
...Versailles Treaty and confirmed in mutual amity by the Locarno Treaty, has now been partially militarized with 40,000 Germans equipped with machine guns, armored cars, bomb and flame throwers and a signal corps. "The only way to live at peace with a nation possessed of such a passion for violence," said General Niessel, "is to confront it with force equally strong...
...uncontrollable passion of young Ann (Jeanne Dante) is for nothing more dangerous than the poems and paintings of the late Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Daughter Catherine (Florence Williams) is more painfully enmeshed in a hopeless crush on a scrupulously disinterested portrait painter (Glenn Anders). Callow Martin, one of those slightly ratty British youths with a wild craving for motor cars, just misses a homosexual imbroglio by falling for the girl next door and her roadster. Even Mrs. Hilton (Gladys Cooper), sensible matron that she is, entertains a fleeting fancy for a returned rubber planter. And, most unexpectedly of all, Roger Hilton...
...Torvald Hoyer's passion for painting that first made him an acrobat. Son of a well-known Copenhagen coal-dealer, he started posing for the Danish court painter Frants Henningsen at the age of 13, later studied in his studio. When Torvald was 19 and a great hulking youth famed as a school gymnast, his teacher suggested that he ought to travel, to see the great art galleries of Europe. Hoyer promptly picked up another muscular schoolmate named Max and formed a tumbling team. Vaudeville engagements came quickly. Soon they teamed up with four other tumblers, became the Montrose...
...complex, ironic, puzzling, there are likely to be as many interpretations of Santayana's long fable as there are readers of it. Although most of these readers may interpret Oliver's unwillingness to accept the world and its pleasures as evidence of some lack of physical passion, the author makes it clear that for Oliver puritanism did not mean chastity or priggishness. "It is a popular error," says he, ''to suppose that puritanism has anything to do with purity." Nor was it ''mere timidity or fanaticism or calculated hardness: it was a deep...