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...pain to the human race, as have hasty, ill-advised marriages, unions entered into without the knowledge, the preparation, the thought even an important commercial contract merits and receives. God made marriage an indissoluble contract, Christ made it a sacrament, the world today has made it a plaything of passion, an accompaniment of sex, a scrap of paper to be torn up at the whim of the participants...
...which he renovated life, and effected a spiritual revolution which no mere man of letters has ever effected. ... He is the supreme individualist, and yet his doctrines furnish the foundations for socialism, even in its oppressive forms. He is the champion of the rights of passion, and yet he was the leader in a movement ... of return to domesticity and the felicities of family life." Rousseau was the first great teacher to see the beauty in mountains and wild landscapes that previous ages had considered only horrible or terrifying. The man who has exercised this tremendous influence was nervous, sentimental...
Probably Dietz' greatest success was in the "Freiburg Passion Play," where he took the part of Pontius Pilate, during its four consecutive season tours in this country. an unusually good acquaintanceship with America is enjoyed by Mr. Dietz. He has played in all forty-eight states, besides appearing in the films and giving performances over the radio...
Recollecting her early passion for the violin, we asked if she still played much and then let our eyes stray around the room, half expecting to see a violin case sticking out somewhere. But Nazimova cut our musing short. "I haven't played for many years; I don't enjoy the playing of a woman. The tone is usually too weak. I love the virile stroking of a man's bow," and her eyes flashed...
...Herr Doktor Obermagistratsrat needed only half an eye to see that a common anxiety gripped their respective bosoms, that a common passion stirred their hearts. What made each & every mayor anxious was the fact that his municipality was still dangerously long on joblessness requiring relief and uncomfortably short on cash to meet that requirement. What each & every mayor was in Washington for was to get money, more money and still more money out of the Federal Treasury for local relief. Hardly had bald, hawknosed T. Semmes Walmsley, Mayor of New Orleans, opened the first session than the keynote...