Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deceptively mellow Mr. Grundy-who falls into Quaker "thee"-saying if he is enraged-was the uncrowned King of Lobbyists in the U. S. from McKinley days until the New Deal years. His sincere passion is for government by a Republican who will interfere in business just enough, never too much. Every tariff bill since 1897 is marked with Joe Grundy's cunning hand. In nearly every smoke-filled room that nominated a G. O. P. candidate since that day, wise, cold, realistic Mr. Grundy has sat, filling the room with smoke and influence. His role in the Party...
Last week the "open meeting" was wide open: a four-night Bach Festival, first of its kind in the Northwest. Bach fans heard an orchestra concert, an organ recital, the Mass in B Minor, the St. John Passion, in the University's big Northrop Memorial Auditorium. If the singers were not yet ready for comparison with such seasoned Bachsters as the Bethlehem, Pa. Choir, they were nevertheless remarkably good...
...Meet Again (Warner) is a re-titling of a remake of One Way Passage, Warner's 1932 tear jerker, in which Kay Francis was an ailing beauty whose serious heart condition was aggravated by a first-glance passion for an escaped murderer (William Powell). This time the tragedy of hapless love is played out against the heartless magnificence of a trans-Pacific luxury liner every throb of whose propeller carries George Brent nearer death by hanging, Merle Oberon nearer death from angina pectoris. Cinemactress Oberon spends much of her allotted time philosophizing about eternity. When not listening, George Brent...
...know that the forebodings of those who have declared that war is ghastly are the words of cravens. We see men who have been striving after the futile things of life suddenly bcome magnificent in their vision. We see selfish men grown generous and careless men stirred to passion by the deep love of country. We see the awakening of a dormant people, and know how terrible are many of the ways of peace...
Next month J. Stirling Getchell, Inc. plans to issue its first completely Dichterized advertisement, for Plymouth cars. Probable motif: the subconscious lure of adventure on the open road, the deep passion to master a machine...