Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Calexico, Calif., an undertaker fell into a passion when clients argued with him about his fee, was deprived of his license for 90 days. Grounds: he used profanity in "the presence of and beside a dead body...
Head machinist for the Exposition Cotton Mills in Atlanta, Ga. is a wiry, hawk-nosed little man (5 ft. 4 in.), with dark blue eyes, greasy, dexterous hands, a fourth-grade education, six grown children, a passion for hunting rabbits with bow & arrow, and some "gold needles," which are divining-rod-like devices for locating gold...
...American Civilization, Beard has already jabbed at Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, the 19th-Century theorist of naval power. He here repeats the performance at greater length, with more savage relish. The navy man's Moses, it appears, was a thoroughly incompetent historian, his imperialist strategy "the rationalized war passion of a frustrated swivel-chair officer who had no stomach for the hard work of navigation and fighting." As for Roosevelt I, whose election was a "tragedy of politics," and Secretary of State John Hay, who "as Lincoln's secretary had become a treasure of the Republican tradition," they...
Before a saint may be canonized, his intercession must officially be proved to have worked at least two miracles. Saint Gemma Galgani. "the Passion Flower of Lucca," every Friday for two years underwent the Stigmata-the five wounds in hands, feet and side which Christ suffered on the Cross. Present at her canonization last week were the two who had benefited by her miracles: Elisa Scarpelli, whose ulcers vanished instantly on May 14, 1938 after prayers to the saint, and Natale Scarpelli. The open leg ulcer he had from 1918 to 1935 healed overnight when a relic of the saint...
...same way, we like better a portrayal of Hamlet which understates the passion in the lines. Then we feel the passion and emotion rising in us from the force of the language itself. If you heard at any time Stokowski's recording of the Tchaikowski Fifth Symphony, you heard a rendition which for all its treacly sweetness might have come from Guy Lombardo as a sample of the "sweetest music this side of heaven." If you heard Koussevitzky's version last Saturday night at Symphony Hall, you listened to a performance clipped and almost terse, which bound together the loose...