Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through his postal-inspection tours, which he made on horseback, he discovered his greatest passion - foxhunting. Ireland's informal manners and poverty not only made him feel at ease, but gave him dignity. To the amazement of his superiors in London, he became a respected, hard working civil servant. He made his first return to England at the age of 30 with a bride, a decent salary, and his first novel, The Macdermots of Ballycloran...
...approved Russian fashion, Critic Zaslavsky called Critic Luce a Fascist and "Goebbels' unconsoled political widow." He added: "This lady does not like us. Furthermore she hates us with a passion which is more African than American in violence...
...Passion & Variety. Alabaman Strode has an almost fanatical faith in the cultural present and future of the South. He takes great pride in the fact that all but four of his 14 students who have sold novels come from within 100 miles of Tuscaloosa...
With the war's end (seven of his students are in the Navy), and the South's gradual economic liberation from the North, Hudson Strode predicts a great regional renascence. For, he declares, "there is more passion, more sentiment, more grace, and more variety in the South than in any other section of the nation...
...crash had turned his New York playground into an "echoing tomb" where "cocktail parties [rang] with [cries of] 'Shoot me, for the love of God, someone shoot me!' " that his tone grew truly grim. Even so, he still had money, good looks, devoted friends, popularity. His passion for work continued ; he sold stories to the richer magazines; he went to work in Hollywood...