Word: passionately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last fortnight was election week in Oberammergau, Germany. But not for a mayor, police chief or sheriff did the citizens vote. Pious and thoughtful, a committee representing all the citizens met to elect a new cast for their world-famed Passion Play in which the entire village takes part...
...Oberammergau Passion Play, first acted in 1634 in gratitude for the cessation of the Black Death, was to be given every ten years. In 1674 the date was changed to fall on decimal years. The World War postponed the 1920 production until...
Smartchat writers remember the parvenu whose Mayfair mansion stands near that of the daughter of George V, King & Emperor. They remember the bathing-suit parties in the swimming pool on the roof, Hatry's passion for ornate bathrooms even at his office, the fact that he nibbled his food like a woman...
...began President Masaryk, according to Dr. Rajniss, "an old man from whose eyes the veil of political passion has long since melted. I urge the people of Hungary to listen to my proposals while I am yet alive...
...Standing is indeed a lovable Mr. Weatherby, but his seduction in the mountain shack is somewhat repulsive. Autumnal passion is not particularly engrossing except to psychologists and sardonic novelists. Unless it be handled with the utmost finesse, is a questionable theme for light comedy, and in Jenny it is presented with a clumsy schoolboy suggestiveness...