Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said, but when she told him about Premier Brownlee he withdrew his offer of marriage, offered instead his advice on how to sue the Premier and recover damages. When she finally broke with him, according to Miss MacMillan, Premier Brownlee was "a love-torn, sex-crazed victim of passion...
...hunting man, Sir John nevertheless shares with most Britons a passion for exterminating what he understands by "cruelty to animals." He frowned black disapproval last week upon the "refined rodeo" now being staged in London by SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS He will put his police into disorder. U. S. Cowboy Maestro Tex Austin. First amused, then indignant, the Wild West promoter was summoned to West London Police Court on the charge that in his rodeo he had "permitted an animal to be terrified, to wit. a steer." The steer had crashed into an exit gate of the rodeo arena, rebounded...
Engaged. Anton Lang Jr., faculty member of Georgetown University, son of the onetime Christus of the Oberammergau Passion Plays; and Clara Mayr, this year's Oberammergau "Magdalene." Married. Helena Woolworth McCann, 21, granddaughter of the late 5?-&-10? Store Founder Frank Winfield Woolworth; and Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, 27, poloist; in Oyster Bay, Long Island...
...wheelbarrows of bricks and beer bottles were trundled up from the rear to throw at Guardsmen. Unemployed joined the battle. Boys in short trousers popped at the Guardsmen with BB rifles. The battered Guardsmen retaliated with barrages of tear gas, with bayonet charges. The strikers, by now a passion-ridden mob completely out of control, retreated only to come back for more. Once Guardsmen fired over their heads. Then, without orders, a Guard platoon leveled its rifles and fired. Two men dropped dead, a onetime CCC camper and an unemployed battery-shop worker. Otherwise the Guardsmen kept their heads, drove...
...became the Metropolitan Opera's prize coloratura. The day Mrs. Bok proudly distributed diplomas her son Curtis was elected president of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, successor to the late Alexander Van Rensselaer. Young Curtis Bok is quiet, well-liked. And he shares with Conductor Leopold Stokowski a passion for all things Russian...