Word: passional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face and shrilled into a microphone: "When Italy invaded Ethiopia . . . Italy violated a treaty with the U. S. and thus violated the supreme law of our land." In Washington President William Green of the American Federation of Labor puffed out his cheeks, bellowed over the air: "The passion for peace possessed by the workers of our country is all-embracing. . . . The workers demand peace. They cry for peace. They think in terms of peace. They are opposed...
Amid this universal peace passion, Franklin D. Roosevelt could not remain unmoved. Last month he had done all he was authorized to do under the Neutrality Resolution when he forbade exports to Italy and Ethiopia of arms, ammunition or implements of war, warned U. S. citizens that they traded with or traveled on ships of the belligerents at their risk (TIME, Oct. 14). Last week the President decided to go beyond the powers given him by Congress to use moral suasion. At a press conference he issued a delicately worded statement repeating what he had said before, with a difference...
...cast you out utterly in your recent report of Herbert Hoover. . . . You say that "he is capable of at least one passion, that of anger ... he has been nursing a pair of first-string grudges . . ." (TIME...
...angry man? Could the untiring diplomatist and spiritual servant who never let one strand of his delicate relationships between militarists and nationalists and intriguers, drunk warlords and war-led, sadists, sentimentalists, victors and victims be endangered by his own indignations-could that be a man given to the passion of anger? . . . You might as effectively speak of an angry Lincoln or an angry Christ himself as an angry Hoover...
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret likes to say that his thick glasses were already on his nose when he was born. That event occurred near Geneva in 1888 where his father, from whom he inherits his passion for machinery, was a prosperous watchmaker. He traveled widely, studying architecture in Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Rome, finally set up shop in Paris just before the War. Commissions being slow, he turned to painting and writing essays for art magazines. In 1921 he adopted his mother's family name, Le Corbusier, but still signs Jeanneret to the Léger-like abstractions he paints...