Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that point, many Americans were caught up in the great muscle-flexing passion of Manifest Destiny. They heard Indiana's Senator Albert J. Beveridge cry: '''God did not make the American people the mightiest' human force of all time simply to feed and die ... He has made us the lords of civilization . . . The Philippines are ours forever." They heard President McKinley trying to set his own mind straight: "When ... I realized that the Philippines had dropped into our laps, I confess I did not know what to do with them ... I went down...
...buxom nudes were blossom-filled landscapes, luminous still lifes. These are strictly change of pace. "When I paint a nude," says Kisling, "I hunger to paint a landscape; when I paint a landscape, I hunger to paint a bunch of flowers." But he admits that his "grand passion" in life is "the women...
...defends his theory. Many children's personalities are warped, he argues, because they happen to be born with jug ears, and get teased about them. Often the nose is the worrisome feature-and it does not have to be as big as Cyrano de Bergerac's. The passion to possess a sort of U.S. standard nose, says Dr. Apton, brings him patients who want their broad, flat noses built up with a bit of ridge, others who want their ridges taken down a notch. Dr. Apton generally obliges...
Soon Raynaud was shipping out 100 bottles a day, at 300 to 1,000 francs a bottle. A grateful Swedish lady testified: "Thanks to your perfume I rediscovered the love of my fiance who, formerly very cold, now leaps with passion on to my perfumed breast." Wrote a Minnesota housewife: "Thanks to your perfume my husband came back to me. Please send another bottle so I can hold...
...spent much time in the south of France trying to recover, but even more in a kind of private hell. The letters are bulletins posted outside the sick room of her soul. At first, pet names (she was "Tig" or "Wig," he was "Jag" or "Bogey") and candid passion masked the symptoms. "I love you with every inch of me . . . You are my perfect lover . . . Hold me, Bogey, when I write those words, for I am in your arms . . . Now I am giving you all sorts of little hugs and kisses, and now big ones and long, long kisses . . . What...