Word: passioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night boxes and gambling joints of France were Ahmad's sole passion. When he left Persia he took an alleged $200,000,000 worth of jewels with him; gave an Oriental carnival for the whole town of Nice which lasted a week, and every night banqueted a thousand guests. On every damsel who tickled his fancy he bestowed a handful of precious stones. In 1930, aged 32, Ahmad died of cirrhosis. Gossip said that he had a liver like an old Spanish saddle. Provision for eight wives was made in his will (executed by Manhattan's Guaranty Trust...
Among nonartists, the reaction to this air-tight ugliness took the form of seaside holidays. Nature became a sort of art gallery. Baedeker became the bible of escape. Verne's own passion for geography was romantic; his love of the sea and the undersea, which his contemporaries shared, is generally recognized today as a death wish (see cut); his greatest creation, Captain Nemo, is simply Lord Byron in a diving suit...
...quietly did Colonel Donovan take over these duties last week that even his mail could not find him. Wayne Coy, one of Franklin Roosevelt's special assistants with "a passion for anonymity"-and at present, as executive secretary of OEM, the President's No. 1 trouble shooter-gave up a suite of offices in the State Department Building so that Wild Bill Donovan could move in. Then a mail carrier turned up at the entrance desk with a registered letter for Colonel Donovan. "Donovan?" said the watchman. "I don't know of any Donovan." The letter went...
...speeches of which it is afterwards difficult to remember the content." "He gesticulates a great deal with loose wrists, so that one watches his hands fascinated, certain they will fly off his arms. . . ." Says Authoress Strauss: "Of his claim to near-greatness there is no question. . . . But indulging his passion for speaking at public meetings has debauched his mind...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Monsignor Joseph Nicholas Grieff, 86, founder of the American Passion Play; in Union City, N.J. Produced annually under his direction, the play ran afoul of the Sunday blue laws in 1923 when a police court recorder fined him a dollar for violating the vice and morality act by giving a theatrical performance on a Sunday. The recorder later reversed himself...