Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tinkering Yankee. Lean, sharp, salty, 54-year-old Van Bush is a Yankee whose love of science began, like that of many American boys, in a passion for tinkering with gadgets. Born in Everett, Mass., near Boston, grandson of a whaler and son of a Universalist preacher, Bush feels most at home in a Cape Cod fishing boat. Possessed of insatiable curiosity and a prodigious memory, he has solid learning in the more obvious forms of literature (he quotes Kipling and Omar Khayyam by the yard), likes to read philosophy, plays the flute, loves symphonic music, has been a successful...
Almost immediately he landed a comic refugee bit part in something called Cue for Passion. Knowing hardly a word of English, Karlweis learned his lines "like a parrot," got wonderful notices. He got them again as the Prince in the enormously successful revival of Johann Strauss's Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus). By then his English was fine. Chuckles he slyly: "As the French say, 'The pillow is the best teacher...
Plimpton's Passion. Plimpton built a $100,000 rink in New York City and introduced his sport to Newport, where polo on roller skates became a fashion. England also rolled passionately on Plimpton's invention. By 1876, Brighton had six rinks. Members of Parliament skated daily at Prince's Club...
...Profited? When the steam of passion and prejudice ran low, the court called for summations. Declaimed Special Prosecutor Major General Pierre Weiss: "Yes or no, has [Pucheu] favored the Germans? Yes or no, has he served the Allies? ... We must ask ourselves . . . who has profited by his actions? . . . I think you must [answer]: 'The enemy...
...TIME, June 9, 1941). Since then nothing more has been heard of him. Maurice de Vlaminck's father was a Belgian who taught music in Paris. Tall and athletic, young Maurice first supported himself as a professional bicycle racer, later as a Paris nightclub musician. But his real passion was painting...