Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impelled by one secret devouring thought: India." Europe kept getting in his way, but that was an accident. "What a man does in life is but a sketch-sometimes even the contrary-of what he dreams. We dream red and live grey, alas! The red dream alone is my passion. I have not beard enough to be an historian...
Lincoln, said one of his friends, "had a strong if not terrible passion for women." Nevertheless, he made a loveless marriage with Mary Todd, and was in such a nervous panic on his wedding day that he took refuge in the Illinois Legislature. Later, however, she got her man, for, said she: "Mr. Lincoln is to be President of the United States some day; if I had not thought so, I would not have married him, for you can see he is not pretty...
...story being operatically artificial, Director Lionel Barrymore was entitled to use scenery both beautiful and absurd. But he need not have made the tale of love and hate so limp. Passion never touches the audience, which is delighted whenever Comedians Laurel & Hardy and buttocks of the horses in their care intervene to provide raucous merriment. By the success of this humor Director Barrymore reveals his failure in the main chance. And Tibbett can never be called the singing Douglas Fairbanks until his way with both horses and women is at least the equal of his attendant clowns...
...sorry crowd of derelicts living in an unspeakable Moscow basement and, like tatterdemalion philosophers, pondering their own destiny and that of the race. In an almost formless succession, each of these is scrutinized by the playwright who strips away the surface tissue and exposes the quivering core of passion, perplexity or faith...
Helena, a gawky and sensitive young girl, with a good education but no charm, falls in love with an older man whom she meets at a summer resort. He tries to believe their relation is platonic, but when, overborne with passion, she comes to give herself to him, he is disgusted and dismayed, shows her as gently as possible her mistake. "In after years ... he learnt that she spoke of him with evident animosity as of one who had done her a grievous wrong...