Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example of the working of a judicial system the trial has been a piece of make-believe entirely alien to our common ideas of sifting evidence through the fairness of legal procedure. . . . Taking the whole history of the case and the passion raised on both sides the court seems to have tried according to its lights and has been conciliatory. ... In no case will the Government be justified in employing force in applying an embargo on Russian imports or breaking off diplomatic relations...
...love for him was so possessive she could hardly bear to let him out of her sight; she was jealous of his work, his friends, all women acquaintances; she rapidly became much too much of an old-fashioned wife. Sergei, to whom love was not an all-consuming passion, was considerably bothered. After repeated scenes with Ludmilla he would ask himself: "Will there never come a time when women will stop being kept women, not in the monetary but in the spiritual sense, which is far worse...
Founder of the Academy of Arts is a personable blonde of 23 with a questing nose and a passion for self improvement: Eleanor Verande. Her life has not been dull. At 15 she had a job in two of the swankest Paris night clubs, Le Perroquet and Florida, giving imitations of Spinelli. Yvonne Printemps and Mistinguette, in French. At 16 she was Premiere Danseuse of the Lyon opera and at the season's end was dragged through the streets of Edouard Herriot's home town by 20 hysterical Frenchmen, dressed as U. S. sailors and shouting "Vive...
...colony, brought up his beloved only son to be a good Jew. Little old Uncle Saltiel worshiped him, his disreputable cronies idolized him, thought him a dayspring from on high, a light to lighten his people. But young Solal's fatal beauty kindled passion in Adrienne, Gentile wife of the French consul. Discovered, they fled to Italy. Old Uncle Saltiel, sent after them, persuaded Solal away from his inamorata, thought he had left him safe in boarding school. But Solal wanted a better school: he ran away and wandered the world...
Pirandello enjoys sitting next to strangers at his plays, hearing them confess bewilderment over "what it means." Says he: "People say that my drama is obscure and they call it cerebral drama. . . . One of the novelties that I have given to modern drama consists in converting the intellect into passion...