Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against this determined stand of the new generation there are forces which have always been beyond man's control. The battle before the war will be the battle of passion against prudence, of propaganda against intelligence. It will also be the battle of economic needs against humane attempts at solution. The last war taught something, the last ten years have taught still more; the question is whether or not ten years has been time enough to learn...
...Peace." Autumn loured in cloudy skies and mourned in the gusty wind, steps scffed along the board-walks, football songs were whistled, the oak door slammed; it all sounded as from a dream. He was living in a remote heroic world. That was the days when-the intellectual passion was kindled in him, when he promised himself that he would be somebody. He kept his word. It is in the silent places that such resolutions are taken, and there, too, the decisive battles are lost...
...sombre moaning of fiddles, melancholy piping of flutes and rumble of tympani a foredoomed Launcelot was born. Bells tolled faintly in the distance, harbingers of Woe. The scene changed abruptly. Seething with passion the Knight of the Lake invaded the bed of Queen Guinevere. Followed a pallid flashback to Elaine floating on her barge, dead for love. The mood became reminiscent: the love-blighted lily of Astolat guarding the wayward knight's shield in a tower, pining away. The barge motif was again heard. Betrayed, undone, Queen & lover fled Camelot, Guinevere to Amesbury nunnery and the veil, Launcelot...
...verandah of the Royal Yacht squadron at Cowes, looking at yacht races and waiting for news of the birth of a grandchild, Ramsay MacDonald was on his way to Oberammergau?first visit of a British Prime Minister to Germany since the war. It was Ramsay MacDonald's fourth Passion Play: 1890, 1900, 1910 all found him at Oberammergau...
...Million Dollars. Surveying Mr. Bennett as a potent figure who may soon become Prime Minister, he is seen to be courageous, rich and righteous. Born in the Province of New Brunswick, he early showed a passion for industry and recti tude. While other little boys and girls were at play, he read and later studied. Today at 60, though he can be genial, he has not yet learned to play...