Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They took to President Hoover their knowledge, experience and advice for his law enforcement investigation. A trained engineer about to sink a new shaft in quest of buried facts, the President plotted his operation cautiously. Six or nine worthy men had first to be found, men without passion or prejudice on prohibition. Their descent must be well charted-where to break ground, how far down to go, what machinery to use to bring up the ugly ore of crime...
...Brown is slick, suave, smooth, poker-faced. He smiles instead of laughs. As trustee of the Lucas County Children's Home, he is called "Uncle Walt" by its young inmates. Foods and their preparation fascinate him. He has an almost feminine passion for cooking. He refuses to eat a strawberry that has touched water. A Harvard graduate, he is 60, below medium height, dark of hair, slow to wrath...
Juliette Brucz, with a passion for Dumas novels, turned the gas on her sleeping husband and went upstairs to read The Count of Monte Cristo...
...herself are quite as shrewd and quite as flattering. She says that Carl Van Vechten thought she should dress "very simply, in black, no headdress at all, no earrings, nothing but her own strange face." He raged at Robert Edmond Jones for jeopardizing his dramatic tastes by approving her passion for ''dressing up" in gaudy turbans and flaming ospreys...
...another Eastern preparatory school, I read with great interest your article on the unique new plan applied to The Hill School for determining the advisability of college for each boy. The Hill School is to be highly commended for devising a new method to control the present American passion for a liberal arts college degree, regardless of fitness...