Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wears a uniform, any time, any where. His uniform automatically retires with his active status. No officer on the active list wears a uniform while traveling. In fact, he never wears a uniform off the station or post unless it is unavoidable. Admiral Byrd, apparently, does not possess this "passion for anonymity." But we might point out that even publicity-hungry, head-scratching Smedley Butler manages to pursue his racket of lecturing on "War is a Racket" in civilian clothes with not one of his five medals in sight. Spray 'em with Larvex, Admiral, and pack...
...Judge Norris wished to be a member of the Committee on Judiciary, and for some reason this ambition flamed mountain-high in him and became his consuming passion. Uncle Joe, in spite of my efforts to persuade him, steadfastly refused to name Norris, [to the Senate Judiciary Committee] a man of pugnacious qualities, who never ceased to fight until he had accomplished his purpose regardless of what methods he was compelled to employ to do so. ... Seconded by Victor Murdock, of Kansas, likewise thwarted in his overweening desire to be placed on the Appropriations Committee, and Augustus P. Gardner...
...Pride and Prejudice" fully we advise that after you have completely relaxed in your leather-backed chair at the Colonial, forget all the progress of the last two centuries in the mating arts, and reduce your idea of the animal, woman to a mere bundle of hovering, pent-up passion, afraid to let herself loose...
Like love-passion and hate-passion, peace-passion and war-passion are first cousins. Not accidental was it that Socialists who for years claimed almost a patent on peace propaganda were last week the subject of investigation when the Department of Justice began to check up in San Francisco and Manhattan on the enrollment of volunteers to fight with the Loyalists in Spain. Not accidental is it that bills for "taking the profits out of war,* backed by many peace lovers in Congress, also provide for mobilizing practically all the resources...
...Passion of Christ, comfort me! Patience of Christ, support...