Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...return of two soldiers, one married and one unmarried, and how the unmarried one gets home first and goes up the winding stairs to the door which the wife of the other opens for him, you would think of "Enoch Arden" or foresee at least the old pattern of passion, quarrel, and reconciliation. And since all stories are old stories, the pattern you foresaw is here, but since some never become familiar you would hardly foresee the patient, particular realism which makes this German "Enoch Arden" into living, modern truth, or guess the force of the emotion shaping the layers...
...General resigned with his entire Cabinet and in a passion. A short time previously he had met with refusal-blunt refusal-when he had demanded the resignation of his own Minister of Posts & Telegraphs, the Rt. Hon. Walter B. Madeley. Blast Madeley's impertinence! If he wouldn't resign alone, General Hertzog knew well enough how to force the fellow out by bringing down his whole Cabinet. The crash was called, last week, and for a very good reason, a "nigger crisis...
While there is everywhere a feeling of sadness at the parting of old traditions that have existed for centuries only because they have existed for preceding centuries, there is on foot throughout the campi of the land a movement for the sublimation of the passion for the only tradition in regard to the college bell is that it be punctiliously oscillated every morning at seven o'clock for a period not less than much too long. A fine of thirty dollars would not be out of place for this offense; fifty is more in keeping with the estimates...
...sophisticated observers, familiar with Tycoon Melchett's known passion for consolidation, amalgamation, did believe he had come to the U. S. to tie up his vast British interests with U. S. enterprise. To newsgatherers, he denied all reports of new I. C. I. deals with Allied Chemical in the U. S., or with the mighty German I. G. Farbenindustrie. Most obvious of remaining possibilities, therefore, was a merger of Mond Nickel with the "biggest" International Nickel Co., owning adjoining properties in the Froude Mines of Ontario...
...There was no room for God in Hesketh's firm belief that some day man would live by Reason; there was no room for religion in the behaviorist upbringing he gave his carefree earthy children. But this omission does not necessarily account for the boy's morbid passion for his youthful stepmother (indeed every man in the book is in love with her); nor for the girl's wild-faun beauty which ruthlessly lures the stepmother's brother, traps his eager senses, torments his touchy conscience, abandons him to suicide. Author Gibbs does not prove...