Word: passionately
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...hero of the novel is Myron angle, as uninteresting a character as the Mr. Lewis has yet turned out. In this he burns an insatiable passion for the temptation of the Perfect American Inn, similar to the poet's dreams of writing the Perfect Poem. Myron is not a business man steeped in Babbittry, but a maniac whose fanaticism, tempered with practical vision and intelligence, carries him from his father's sleepy hostelry in Black Thread, Connecticut, to the top rank of the "Mine Hosts" of America. His vicissitudes in the course that progress constitute the thread the story...
...painting and objet d'art, a library of several thousand volumes. Said he once: "There are two more works that I have to write. When they are done, I am going to throw my library into the Isar." Though he is German to the marrow, Spengler has a passion for Italy, visits it whenever he can. Heavyset, strong-featured, with big ears and an impressively high bald head, Spengler at 53 still has great physical vigor, delights in tireless mountaineering and long hikes, likes to converse with peasants, whose quips and saws he collects with fervor, repeats with gusto...
...PASSION'S PROGRESS: Volume Two, MEN OF GOOD WILL-Jules Remains-Knopf...
Madame Walska concentrated then on perfumes. But luxury articles slumped first in Depression and she got out of business, bought the Théâtre des Champs Elysées which she still owns. Singing remains Walska's passion but the Philadelphia audience was hard put to understand why last week. She cannot get along without her notes. Each song sounds just like the last. What tone she has is thin and warbly. Yet with the scantiest encouragement she comes back beaming to teeter through an encore. The Philadelphia Record said: "Madame Walska's art is that...
...lived" to the simpler muscular method. And despite his inordinate skill, it takes just two acts (out of two) for the lady to make up her mind. Your cousin from out West would call it "pretty raw," but it really is just a fine, clean portrayal of young passion, more freely translated than usual into the English tongue. On the side, of course, the play gives amusing vignettes of the everyday life of the sailor...