Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the practice of law in Greensboro, N. C. to Reynolds' assistant general counselship, he dropped the assistant portion of the title in 1921, added a vice-presidency in 1925. Now 47, he conceals beneath a soft North Carolina drawl a hair-trigger mind and a hair-splitting passion for accuracy in both spoken and written word...
...DESIRE-Robert Herrick -Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). On the jacket of The End of Desire Publishers Farrar & Rinehart have blurbed the rather rhetorical question: "Whence arises the sudden passion of a Man for a Woman?" You may be surprised to discover that this is a quotation from the late great Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche himself. But you will be more surprised that it takes Author Herrick's hero 371 pages to find the answer. Psychiatrist Redfield met Abnormal-Psychology Expert Massey at a murder trial. Redfield was a man; Massey a woman; both were middle-aged (in fact, grandparents). They fell...
...flag of silk and waved it with practiced enthusiasm. Then cameramen photographed her stuffing it in her bosom. She said she had worn that flag next to her heart ever since she departed the U. S. ten years ago. "Viva America!" she shrilled. "America is my one grand passion!" She could shrill, too. She was Luisa Tetrazzini...
When Composer Italo Montemezzi wrote L'Amore dei Tre Re, Poet Sem Benelli provided him with a libretto which cried for music of exquisite passion and tenderness. The fact that parts of it recall the music of Tristan & Isolde never seemed important. Montemezzi's score has surge and spontaneity of its own, enough to arouse high hopes for his one-act La Notte di Zoraima (The Night of Zoraima), given its U. S. premiere last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...
...Professor Rollins's reprints from the Pepys Collection, although it will presently be followed by an eighth, containing Indexes to the whole work. Some of these ballads are of a strictly historical nature; numerous others deal with the troubles of lovelorn maidens; various have to do with deeds of passion and violence, expiated on the gallows; and many more report strange and wonderful news. So miscellaneous, indeed, are the themes in this volume, that in many ways it is the most interesting and valuable of the seven. The London Times comments that "The whole set will constitute a very valuable...