Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coal black nigger boy called Henry Christophe. He listened to their conversation, his clever gentle eyes following their shots with melancholy speculation. "They talked of their Negro mistresses and of the comely mulatto whores who supplied Cap null with whatever its quiet, oppressive nights had of glamour, passion, and forgetful laughter. . . ." Henry Christophe never interrupted his masters...
...nick of slaughter Martin and Claire are rescued from the black and bloody tunnel by a search party which turns out to have been sent by Martin's antediluvial wife, Helen, whom he had thought drowned. Before her presence can soil the lovers' passion, however, Helen is kidnaped by a fresh band of lustful and flood-maddened males...
...tall and about fifty years of age. He founded his rubber business in 1910 at Singapore, and now enjoys a. fabulous income which enables him to live luxuriously at Amoy, on the coast of Southern China. Uneducated in the western sense, and speaking only Chinese & Malayan, he has a passion for educational philanthropies and makes up each year the large deficit of a university which he founded at Amoy. He has several times visited Europe but professes an unalterable resolve not to set foot in the U. S., although much of his rubber dealing is done with U. S. firms...
...Significance. The number of books with terse culinary titles grows fast. BREAD-OIL-STEEL-have worried bones of social contention. Now MEAT. But if Author Steele started with a social passion he soon abandoned it to fondle various phases of human distortion with apparent fascination. Readers who have long counted on his stories for sound enjoyment, will be astonished to encounter here a collection of picayune obscenities importantly treated, and a legitimate argument abused and invalidated...
...lift our hands for the pledge and solemnly repeat: "I pledge allegiance to the flag, and to the country for which it stands, one and indivisible, with liberty and justice for all," can any one-hundred per-cent citizen fail to grasp the deep meaning, the patriotic tenderness, the passion and spirit of his own native land? Do we outrun ourselves in thus eulogizing the United States of America? No. The United States of America is a great and glorious institution and is undoubtedly a success...