Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After World War I, Artillerist Kartveli went to France, studied aeronautics, supported himself for a year by a trapeze act in a circus. Meanwhile he learned to fly. His passion was the all-metal airplane. He designed one in 1927-a failure. But by last fall he was a recognized designer at Republic, the head of a department of 200 engineers (who call him Mister...
General Stilwell is a soldier's officer, whose one passion is leading and training troops. His mouth is thin, his face hard and decisive beneath greying black hair. Fast of foot and mind, General Stilwell is forever barking: "Yah-Yah!" when his thoughts leap ahead of a companion's words. When they jump far ahead, he barks in triplicate...
With such sultry passages did the onetime French gossip columnist, Magda Fontanges, reveal the story of her passion for Italy's aging (58) Mussolini. Last week, two years later, she would scarcely have recognized her onetime lover.* In his private study at the Palazzo Venezia, Mussolini no longer entertains visitors. In deep gloom he sits alone, reading Dante and Virgil, while his people faint on the streets from hunger...
...language of the dress business is extravagant, but, even in plain English, genius is the word for Nettie. Her peculiar genius is summed up in her favorite maxim : "It's what you leave off a dress that makes it smart." Luckily for her, this passion for simplicity coincided with the emancipated anti-ruffle trend started by Paris' great Paul Poiret around 1916, the year before Nettie started making clothes for her friends (and their friends) as well as for herself. For four years she did all her work in her brownstone house, but by 1921 so many customers...
...kept from doing anything drastic about it, first by Depression, second by war. But, despite these handicaps, many U.S. railroad companies have hired industrial designers to experiment on a small scale with the problems of modern railroad design. One is Manhattan's Raymond Loewy, who believes with simple passion that "a railroad station is not a house," and who is busy modernizing stations for the Pennsylvania Railroad...