Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hero Casanova Jones, "a gentleman sober, a gentleman blotto," is a Prohibition agent whose wife runs a speakeasy. Beautiful but thick Annabel Cloy imagines herself a poet, and is overjoyed when Casanova, pretending to be a publisher, says he will print her Poems of Passion, is enraged when she discovers his duplicity. From this out, the plot becomes more and more revue-worthy. In the end Casanova, in a vain attempt to regain Annabel's affections, goes deliberately to jail by selling liquor on the street. His example becomes popular...
Cheerfully and even joyously, then, Dowager Queen Marie returned from the Passion Play at Oberammergau last week to Bucharest. As her train drew in, but before it stopped, Her Majesty leaped from the step of her salon car as lightly as a girl, rushed at King Carol who tried to take and kiss her hand, swept him into her arms, hugged and kissed him thrice. With a gay skip Crown Prince (previously King) Mihai rushed at "Granny''! Prince Nicholas kissed his mother's hand. So did all the other great dignitaries present except one. He, an imposingly robed and snowy...
Tall, sinewy, with iron-grey hair, pointed beard, high cheekbones, keen, kind eyes behind his scholar's spectacles, Philosopher Unamuno is a mystic but no wishy-washy one. Says he: "I have put passion into my books-the passion of hatred, the passion of disdain, the passion of contempt!'' He is married. "Like my Basque country, I have no history, or rather it is all purely internal. Since my birth in Bilbao on the 29th of September 1864 of a Basque family, nothing has happened to me that can interest a reader. ... As to my internal life...
...Oberammergau, between acts of the Passion Play, Queen Marie told correspondents she had congratulated Carol by wire, that he had replied "with affection" and that she would soon return to Bucharest...
...marry a commoner, one Mme. Sayeanu. This would leave the Rumanian royal family without a representative on the regency council which was then reigning in behalf of boy King Mihai. Greatly agitated, with tears streaming down her face, the Dowager Queen left Bucharest, saying, "I am going to the Passion Play at Oberammergau...