Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Passion for Reds. Last week, campaigning for renomination and a third term in the Senate, he was at it again. At 68 he was an ugly little figure; sometimes, as he whirled across the countryside in his sleek, grey Cadillac, he wrapped a red scarf around his big, balding head to keep hoarseness away. Each morning he put on a fresh white shirt and a red tie; each night he slept in red pajamas. He made three speeches (averaging two hours each) and smoked nine cigars...
...Passion for Whites. He ranted of white supremacy: "The nigger is only 150 years from the jungles of Africa, where it was his great delight to cut him up some fried nigger steak for breakfast. . . . Over in Georgia a pambly-wambly governor named Ellis Arnall has sold his state down the river. There are 200,000 niggers registered and Georgia has gone to hell...
...Harry Truman belongs) is always the Fourth District candidate, a "Rabbit" (the heirs of the late Congressman Joe Shannon) always runs in the Fifth-and never would the two machines collide. Thus "Rabbit" Slaughter has the committed support of Jim Pendergast, who, like his late uncle, Tom, has a passion for keeping his political word...
...Clyde. In the evening it was the Comet from Manchester, pulling through the yards and spitting scornful clouds of steam. As the years and the big trains rolled by, Harley's dream that he would run one some day went up in the sooty smoke of Crewe. His passion for the glorious trains rotted away into consuming hatred...
Wigs & Tories. But even Linda's ducal grand passion conforms to the general tone of The Pursuit of Love-which plays on the surface of life so wittily and deftly that it makes far better fiction than, say, the leaden soundings of James T. Farrell. It excels in fluent, natural descriptions of English country life (that peculiar combination of rigorous and relaxed living), in its feminine lightness, and in its sharp summings-up of occasional characters-such as prematurely balding Lord Fort William, whose "hair seemed to be slipping off backwards, like an eiderdown in the night," and Linda...