Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passion for well-rounded education is such that we are in danger of manufacturing a nation of billiard balls...
...true scholars--those who have a passion to go exploring in the world of ideas, tracing down the lost, mislaid, and undiscovered facts pertaining to some particular subject...
...Wilda Bogert Chamberlin (Clarence Duncan Chamberlin flew the Atlantic two years ago) : "Ladies who want a grand passion had better stick to their businessmen. . . . Children are not for a flyer's wife." The Chamberlins live mostly at hotels. Mrs. Carrie Williams (Roger Quincy Williams flew the Atlantic this summer) : "For a whole year at a time I hardly see Roger at all. . . . The economic conditions of aviation make our living as insecure as everything else. . . . The mother of the baby girl across the street died at her birth, and I've taken a great deal of care...
...There was no racial conflict in what happened in Palestine the other day. It is a situation where the leaders of both races ought to join together and with common voice and with a passion shared equally in both their hearts condemn what was nothing less than an ordinary piece of political crime...
...MODERN FAMILY-Ruth Reed- Knopf ($3). In academic circles ideas need not be new to be exciting. Despite some circumlocation, Author Reed, not original, has enough feminist and liberal passion to excite one way or another those who care about The Family. For instance, in a Southern university not 1,000 miles from Dayton, Tenn., the president wrothily returned to Manhattan a copy of this book sent for examination...