Word: passionately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vigor swift, his passion long...
...Jesus, Son of Man. Unadorned with the glittering paradoxes of Kenan's Vie, free from the sensationalism of Barbusse and the sentimentalism of Papini, clear of the pathos of the recent cinema version, Ludwig's is a popular, but none the less scholarly, interpretation. His indefatigable passion for historical records and documentary scraps immerses him in contemporary Latin and Greek commentaries, but chiefly in the self-contradictory New Testament records which seem to him logical enough if arranged psychologically. The avowed object of his search is Jesus the human being, and in no sense the Christ of religious...
...GIRL ADORING - Viola Meynell - Dutton ($2.50). Viola Meynell borrows the delicate pastels of spring flowers to enhance the loveliness of Claire, a young girl adoring. For all her wax-figure delicacy Claire breathes, gently, and harbors surprisingly virile passions. She does not like, she adores, Laura, the sister-in-law with whom she lives, and protects her with passionate devotion from the smug mediocrity of her gentleman-farmer husband. His shortcomings are only too blatant for his sensitive sister Claire, but not for Laura, a duly admiring wife. When Claire discovers the needlessness of so deftly protecting Laura, she turns...
Hearst now has 24 newspapers, ten magazines, eight feature, news and film services, also the Cosmopolitan Book Corp. Indeed, there is no danger of the wolf growling at Hearst's door. Good Housekeeping alone is capable of buttering Hearst's bread and of satisfying his large passion for antiques. He may be old (65), but he is not yet ready to get out of journalism. Rather, he is trimming his properties, consolidating them, fertilizing the hardy ones, weeding out the weak ones; so that a banker can look at them and say: "They are a sound unit...
...money to the poor and dares combat with the Church of Rome. He is not, however, entirely a saint. His lusts lead him to betray a sympathetic virgin who later returns to help him conduct his holy reforms. Gherardo, veering like a mediaeval Elmer Gantry between his passion for this girl and his passion for reform, is led at last to betray his followers in an effort to secure her release from jail. In this effort he fails. He watches her being strangled and is then carried off to be put on the fire...