Word: passionate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Fairbanks, cousin to the daring Douglas. She makes one realize that Yoakum, Mississippi is still to be visited by her, but she gets across the idea that it is more pleasant to be bad in a speakeasy than good in East Orange, New Jersey with considerable amount of restrained passion. (It really only takes a bit of common sense to come to that conclusion.) The amiable old judge and Count Di Ruvo are also portrayed with a good deal of perfection...
...peaceful peasant revolt toppled him from power (TIME, Nov. 12, 1928). Retainers found the handsome but embittered man lying on a bench in the park of his estate. A stroke had completely paralyzed his left side. He died at 9:30 p. m. In life he had one ruling passion: exclusion of foreign capital from his country. With heart and soul the last of the Bratianus hated & feared Wall Street, despised King Carol whom he once called "weak and sly to the point of periodic in sanity." Professor George Bratianu (son of Ion) was not long ago induced...
Phobias, which he hammers upon any day in the week, include dry-sweeping of sidewalks, invisible house-numbers, bad grammar and punctuation. Sharing Colyumist Adams' passion for poker are his brother members in the Thanatopsis Literary & Inside-Straight Club...
...late Oscar von Forckenbeck, high Prussian official, had a consuming passion: the collection of old newspapers and manuscripts. When he died in 1892 he left the fruits of 40 years of collecting-jour-nals in 43 languages from 32 countries. These were bequeathed to the municipality of Aix-la Chapelle which built upon the collection, until, last week, the Technical College at Aachen (formerly Aix-la Chapelle) opened to the public its Newspaper Museum. It contained 150,000 journals in nearly all languages. Oldest example is a copy of Neue Zeitung Tubingen of 1561. Most interesting U. S. item...
...Freiburg Passion Play, with the authentic German company and 200 trained singers; at the Opera House, Boston...