Word: passionate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though his work is the breath of life to Vondorn he has enough wits to realize he must keep his lungs to breathe even that exalted air. He goes off to Rainbow Sanitarium in New Mexico, but his passion for astronomy is greater than his passion for health. He begins to work on his book Toward a New Space. Then two violet-blue eyes, across the sanitarium dining-room table, begin to work...
...eight new sisters were given made-up. Wagnerian-sounding names like "Ritthelle." "Kampfsiege," "Trautschilde." There were real gas flames, 10 to 40 ft. high, for the Magic Fire scene. In Die Walküre sang Soprano Elsa Alsen, Basso Fred Patton. Tenor Georg Fassnacht Jr. from the Freiburg Passion Play. In Aïda were Tenor Paul Althouse, Soprano Gina Pinnera...
...mustard. But not until last month had Bull Durham encountered Romance. Then suddenly 35,000 billboards throughout the land proclaimed the news. Advertisements showed a picture of him pasted on the side of a barn. Before the picture, big eyes ogling, tongue hanging out in an expression of lugubrious passion, stood a buxom Holstein cow. This whimsy was captioned "Her Hero." Motorists grinned. Advertising men, seeing in it a burlesque of sex-appealing tobacco advertisements, thought it smart. But to the churchwomen of Willow Glen, a suburb of San Jose, Calif., it was the epitome of bad taste, an affront...
...Indians and their strange ways, all are materialized by Authoress Carlisle in fascinating detail. Meanwhile the struggle between John Dexter and Eleazar takes an unexpected turn. Hopeless of his brother's wife, Eleazar transfers his unholy zeal to an orphan, Purity, whom Anne has adopted on the Mayflower. His passion, countering the similar passion of John's son, David, is ended only when he violates the maid, leaves her to drown herself...
...review the case of seven Negroes convicted at Scottsboro, Ala. of raping two white girls and sentenced to death (TIME, JUNE 22). Defense attorneys claimed their clients were denied their constitutional rights and were tried amid scenes of mob passion under military guard by an all-white jury before a biased judge. Because this case has been befogged by Communist agitation, the Supreme Court was under special guard last week. The grant of a review will automatically save the young blackamoors from execution June 24, postponing their fatal day at least until after Oct. 10 when the court will hear...