Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herr Kuerten is a retired family coachman, scrupulously clean and neat, polite spoken, with a grave, impressive face. His fellow servants thought nothing of his one eccentricity: a passion for studying geography. In arresting Coachman Kuerten last week, the police pointed out that this hobby dovetailed nicely with the "Düsseldorf Vampire's" habit of sending to local newspapers, small, carefully drawn maps illustrating each of his ghastly crimes...
...with the consent and active encouragement of doddering old Emperor Franz Josef, to marry one of her daughters to the heir apparent, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. At her palace in Pressburg, where he had been invited to fall in love with her daughter, the obstinate young man conceived a blind passion for Sophie Countess Chotek, a mere lady-in-waiting to Isabella...
First an expedient, Cuba has grown to be a passion with Mr. Byoir. Through the Post's columns he fights her cause with all the fervor of a native. Cubans took him to their collective bosom for his magnum opus, a thoroughgoing study of the sugar industry and a series of smashing antitariff editorials which, spread over the front page of the Post, were widely quoted...
Adolph Fassnacht, "Christus" in the Freiburg Passion Play now touring the U. S. under the direction of impresario Morris Gest, sued his brother George, the play's Judas, for $100,000 for starting the Freiburg Passion Play in English. Recently in Denver "Christus" and his wife "Mary Magdalene" attacked "Judas," pushed his head through a box office window. All three were taken to jail...
...moral passion but no religious convictions, Hayes believed in temperance, served no liquor at the White House. Once visiting diplomats thought he had slipped when they tasted a punch and detected the flavor of rum; but the Presi dent had fooled them, it was only the flavor they tasted. Hayes would have liked a second term, but believed one was enough, stuck to his conviction. His party politicians were glad of his decision, hoped their next man would not prove so uncompromising against the spoils system. Back in Ohio, Hayes enlarged his house, saw his friends, read many a book...