Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...film begins with a hunting party at the castle of the Duke, includes a 100% bourgeois ghost and ends when the Duke in a proper passion vents his jealous rage upon the naughty Duchess?there being no Red moral. A few years ago Mme Lunacharsky played the role of prostitute-heroine in a film
...preaching solemnly against the green-eyed vice. When her man kicked her out of their house and sat down sullenly, the moral was croakingly pointed in these words: "There is no time for exhibitions of so bourgeois a passion as jealousy in our Socialist society! This man should not have interrupted his work...
...cane industry. Even Utah's Republican Smoot is no higher protectionist than he. He ardently advocates Philippine independence to put that possession's sugar crop outside the tariff wall. He voted for coal, oil and copper tariffs in the 1932 Revenue Act. Because of his passion for Republican tariffs most Democratic leaders eye him with political distrust. To the press gallery he is a Democrat in name only and his vote can generally be anticipated. His proudest political feat was inducing Republicans to agree to legislation naming a new Washington street after his State...
Then Lucy turned up again-poor, deserted, with several children. Paul felt only sorry for her at first, but soon his old passion began to rack him. When Lucy's besotted husband tried to kill her, Paul threw him downstairs, broke his neck, landed himself in a queer, unsaintly pickle. His straightforwardness and Lucy's testimony got him safely through the trial. Death soon removed the temptation of Lucy from him. Ripening but not repining, Paul seemed to those around him a strong and saintly character, though he knew himself still a struggling beginner at his endless...
Alien to most busy folk in the U. S. is the Buddhist hope to reach Nirvana by self-sacrifice, contemplation, suppression of passion. Nevertheless, now & then some inquisitive or discontented Westerner adopts Buddhism. Last year a Mrs. Margaret E. Ledson, 33, California divorcee, became the first U. S. Buddhist nun. F. M. Ormsby and L. A. Coburn of Boise, Idaho, became Buddhist monks, begged in the streets of Kyoto for seven months. Many a German and British Buddhist has gone to Ceylon to practice the faith, apparently more as a system of ethics than anything else. These scattered converts...