Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Martha's elephantine passion was only fanned the brighter. She told him a secret too-she had always wanted to be a lady embalmer. Fascinated as a male spider about to be devoured by his mate, little Ray took her along on his larcenous travels...
...made it plain that it was all a matter of passion rather than propaganda, and that she was more to be pitied than censured. When her attorney asked her in courtly tones if she had ever "intended to adhere to the enemy," she replied throatily: "Anyone who knows me knows it isn't true...
Every week, U.S. hams casually talk to hams behind the Iron Curtain. Usually the topics discussed are politically innocuous: the weather, detailed descriptions of radio equipment, sometimes the moves in a chess or checker game. Even in presidential years, hams avoid politics. Their mutual passion for radio appears to level most cultural, racial, political and religious differences...
Whispering Smith* (Paramount) is a standard horse opera, in Technicolor, full of fights, gunplay, chases, and the wholesome passion of a clean-cut Ladd (Alan) for a Good Woman (Brenda Marshall). The complicating fact is that Brenda is married to Alan's old friend (Robert Preston). But Preston develops a taste for too much liquor, too many women and two evil companions (Donald Crisp and Frank Faylen...
...earliest, probably written when he was only 15,* Proust practices the mincing tones of flattery: "Madame, you are pretty, extremely pretty." He signed a note to one creature: "The most respectful servant of your Sovereign Indifference." He feigned passion, and strained for it, but could seldom find it. Later he was to admit that "I only know how to tell women I admire and love them when I feel neither one nor the other." Perhaps he remembered the letter he had written to a Creole courtesan, a friend of his great-uncle: "I should far rather make a slip with...