Word: passionately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...child high in his arms, saying: "I dedicate thee, Rosa, little flower of human life, to the cause of Russian women?Rosa, sweetest of flowers; Luxembourg, honored name of a martyr?beauty and sacrifice." As if in obedience to a magic wand the entire assembly rose, and with the passion of youth and the feeling of age the Internationale was sung?then...
...Story. The romance of Henry Earlforward, middle-aged bookseller of Riceyman Steps, Clerkenwell, and of Violet Arb, well-to-do widow, past 40 who had recently inherited the confectioner's shop across the way, was an odd but happy linking together of two penny-pinching temperaments. The grand passion of Henry's life was for solid cash ? a passion so strong it attained the proportions of self-sacrificing heroism. When he discovered on the eve of his marriage that Violet had actually been paying their mutual charwoman, Elsie, less than he, he glowed to think what a wonderful wife...
...spite of Elsie's shock ing appetite for an occasional square meal ? and Elsie, too, was as con tented as a servant can properly expect to be, except when she remembered her shell-shocked suitor, Joe, who had disappeared shortly before the Earlforwards' marriage. But Henry's passion finally proved too strong for him ? he ate less and less (food is so costly), to Violet's great anxiety and in spite of all she could do. And Violet, too, began to wither and pine. Then Henry fell ill and refused to go to the hospital ? Violet broke...
...rest, we have the story of Paul's loves". I use the quotation marks advisedly, because nowhere in the book have I found any love that was more than animal passion or animal instinct, unless perhaps it be Paul's love for his mother on her death bed. Even Miriam, the mystic, the dreamer, apparently does not really love him. There is passion, physical attraction--plenty of that, but no love...
...tends to speak in periods. His words, too, are gestures; this, however, is the world of make-believe and of romance. It is his world. He moves in it serenely and triumphantly. He is a giant of a novelist, a swift spinner of glowing tales, a man with a passion for accomplishment who has been endowed with sufficient vitality to pursue his images to their creation. Long life to him and his vigor...