Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Executive Reorganization was represented in the Senate by one bill, in the House by four, two of which, including one to provide for six executive assistants equipped with a "passion for anonymity," were passed last summer. Reorganization's chance of passage this session was exceedingly small...
...though its customers were smoking more furiously than ever, Schulte Retail Stores filed for reorganization under the Bankruptcy Act. Reason was Mr. Schulte's tendency to lease too much real estate. In his 47 years in the cigar store business Mr. Schulte has developed an uncontrollable passion for corner sites. In 1925 he paid $6,000,000 for a corner in Manhattan's Times Square, put a shop on it to sell cigarets at a pipsqueak profit per package. Mr. Schulte's great attachment to real estate has not been entirely irrational. Once he bought the Aeolian...
Down the Ohio River floated a skiff manned by two Negroes, carrying a young couple and their baby to a new home farther west. The long-haired young man, whose weathered face belied his trade, was a storekeeper with a passion for painting birds. His name was John James Audubon. Passing an island, Audubon saw the cross-eyed, hook-nosed face of a horned owl. Up came his fowling piece; he shot, leaped overboard to retrieve the bird. As he waded through the shallows he began sinking in quicksand. The Negroes, cautioning him not to move, braced themselves with oars...
Last week U. S. cinemaudiences saw a charmingly enameled Pola, matronly to the points of her double chin, die the remorseful death of fickle Madame Bovary. She was no longer the dashing, fiery Pola of Passion and Gypsy Blood. The 1937 Madame Bovary loves nice things, has a roving eye, a fat medico husband. Her eye gets to roving before her husband has had time to get down to the business of properly neglecting her, and the story, though warranted Aryan, is far from Flaubert...
...visible in the blizzard scene for which it is wanted; 2) Cheri (Maria Shelton), a fading actress whose contract makes it worth a cutter's job to take out one of her closeups; 3) Quintain (Humphrey Bogart), a smart, dog-loving producer, driven to drink by his passion for Cheri; 4) Nassau (C. Henry Gordon), a promoter who tries to bankrupt the studios and buy up control...