Word: passionately
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jimmy Byrnes dropped the first real bomb. Pointing straight at a small man seated quietly in the gallery, his voice tense with passion, the wiry South Carolinian cried: "The South may just as well know , . . that it has been deserted by the Democrats of the North. . . . One Negro . . . has ordered this bill to pass and if a majority can pass it, it will pass. . . . If Walter White," and Jimmy Byrnes was fairly shouting his angry tribute, "should consent to have this bill laid aside, its advocates would desert it as quickly as football players unscramble when the whistle...
...last week, dapper, 40-year-old Poet Joseph Auslander, recently appointed to the "chair of poetry" of the Congressional Library, proposed as his first official act the building of "a singing tower," meaning a place where poets' work would be safe against "the horrors of the hour, Beast passion and the lust for power." At the end of a three-verse appeal which began...
...DEPRESSION-President Roosevelt's Recipe-By a Correspondent." Ex- cerpts: "Mr. Roosevelt, like most vocal humanitarians, is a great hater. . . . Roosevelt's punitive mind is mirrored in the drastic extension of the Capital Gains Tax. . . . Working men may be forgiven for thinking that Mr. Roosevelt's passion for half-baked reforms has reformed them out of their jobs. . . . As a result of [the Roosevelt Administration's] crazy experiments in taxation and their policy of harassing industry, the lights are going out in factories all over America. The direful 'No Men Wanted' signs are brought...
...beetling, black-browed Viennese with a thick accent and a passion for hotels is Ralph Hitz, president of National Hotel Management Co., Inc. According to legend, this son of an Austrian horse dealer ran away from home to become an elevator boy in Vienna's Hotel Sacher, was coaxed back into the family on the promise of being taken to New York. Three days after he arrived in 1906, prodigal, 15-year-old Ralph Hitz ran away again, became a $3-a-weekbusboy in a Broadway hashhouse. Then for nine years he crisscrossed the U. S., paying far more...
...discovered that it was ''very nice being a celebrity a real celebrity who can decide who they want to meet and say so and they come or do not come as you want them." She also discovered that she liked to make money ("Just at present my passion is avarice"), that she loved the U. S., loved to lecture, liked photographers, reporters, liked to see her name in electric lights on Times Square. When she sailed for the U. S., after a 30-year absence, with her companion, Alice B. Toklas, she enjoyed getting a luxurious stateroom...