Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the books shown are Durer's "Small Passion" and "Apocalypse," Rolbein's "Dance of Death" and Old Testament, and Luther's Bible, illustrated with woodcuts by Hans Sebald Beham, and the "Metamorphoses" of Ovid...
...writing of this sort is as frequent as it is strangely inconsistent with that "mental energy and intellectual relaxation," which Mr. Boyd-Carpenter flaunts as the chief glory of the English university. British writers and lecturers have long managed to turn a pretty penny at the expense of American passion for criticism. And Mr. Boyd-Carpenter's attempt tinctured with ignorance is equally puerile...
...dinner beside a young, twittering debutante, he ate three courses without speaking. She, awed by her famed companion, finally nerved herself to ask, "What do you consider the most important thing in life, Mr. Strachey?" From behind the red bush of his beard came the high, squeaky chirp, "Passion...
...World War was more of a traveler than an author. His first popular work was an anti-War play, Jeremiah, produced in Switzerland to avoid German and Austrian censorship. He now writes to carry out a conscious literary program. Other translated works: Paul Verlaine, Emile Verhaeren, Romain Rolland, Passion and Pain, Invisible Collection, Conflicts, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, Joseph Fouché, Amok...
...performed in cinema for the first time, liked it so much he never went back to the stage. He went to Hollywood to direct Mary Pickford in Rosita nine years ago, after making himself and Pola Negri famous with Gypsy Blood, Montmartre, One Arabian Night and Du Barry (called Passion...