Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been an ardent student of music for almost 50 years, have had a particular passion for military bands ever since I was a kid and my experience in this field ranges from the gutter band of six dilapidated instrumentalists who used to collect pennies on summer evenings in my home town to the best military and concert bands of three continents...
...Mother Sousa. Though she lay in bed most of the time, garbed in a tattered blue kimono, Mrs. Sousa nourished a secret passion for efficiency. Incapable of keeping the house clean, she never failed to mark letters to local stores AIR MAIL. Her favorite recreation: brooding over her own canceled checks. Her conviction: that hired help led lives that "were pretty drab and needed brightening." So hired help always left the Sousa home stewed to the gills...
...engaged in a constant celebration of Bastille Day." Father was a sportsman, with "a special fondness for equipment." A trail of duffel bags and duck decoys filled the Sousa hallways. "All the best closets were quickly filled with sleeping bags, tents, canteens, fishing rods, tackle boxes. . . ." Father had a passion for the society of policemen, for presiding on committees. "After the first couple of months [he] virtually ran Chilapa, although not necessarily by consent of the inhabitants...
...Harry Ruby's real passion in life is neither song nor script writing-it is baseball. Ever since a day, 22 years ago, when Ruby stopped in New Rochelle to watch a Westchester League sandlot game, baseball has obsessed him to the point of mania. With doglike devotion, he has followed the White Sox, the Giants, the Cubs, and a half-dozen other U.S. Major League teams in training and on the road. Ruby owns and wears the uniforms of all the teams he fools with. He spends most of his time bench-warming...
...this union of sales sense and pictorial passion was born Art Movement, Inc., whose Manhattan outlet is the Hall of Art. Physically the Hall of Art is a big street-floor and mezzanine store on Manhattan's West 40th Street. Artistically, it is an Ali Baba's cave whose open-sesame is the fact that its canvases, which are plainly visible through the window, have price tags that can be seen from the street. Prices range from...