Word: passionately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know that I could make entirely clear to an outsider the pleasure I have in teaching. I had rather earn my living by teaching than in any other way. In my mind, teaching is not merely a life work, a profession, an occupation, a struggle. It is a passion. I love to teach. I love to teach as a painter loves to paint, as a musician loves to play, as a singer loves to sing, as a strong man rejoices to run a race. Teaching is an art an art so great and so difficult to master that...
...Manufacturing Co.) by reason of a genius for not interfering with men trained to their jobs. "He smokes incessantly, has no love for automobiles, regards a screwdriver with suspicion and a monkey-wrench with horror." Modest, he will permit no one to address him as "Doctor," though his abiding passion for English literature has caused three universities to confer upon him honorary degrees...
...multimillionaire if he had been denied entrance to college. Instead, he passed most of his four college years with no thought of academic distinction, until chance rather than intention on his own part, threw him under the spell of a teacher who inspired him with an abiding passion to find out certain things. Today, as president of the Michigan University, with a recognized reputation as a medical scientist there is no man in America with greater opportunities for usefulness to the Nation as a whole if he does not persist in raising the entrance requirements." G. P. Winahop...
...Thomas is out of step with the American public. The man who once saw American life and its foibles clearly has become blinded by passion to the majority mind of the nation. He is turning the stage into a wet pulpit from which to slander lawmakers, officials and his fellow citizens...
...wait forever. And, unfortunately for him, there is a double exposure that blots him out of the picture. One night he creeps into the dark room where Gita is developing her image of Surgeon Geoffrey Pelham. Eustace falls back on the fallacy that passion breeds passion. Taking him for a burglar she pinks his shoulder with a Colt. That brings Surgeon Geoffrey into the house pretty often and he in turn brings Gita's endocrines into their own. One night while he rows her through the moonlit salt marshes she has to admit it. Compunction for Eustace is hardly...