Word: passionately
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Actor Lunt, brought face to face with his pre-War inamorata, exerts all his gayety, willfulness, passion in an attempt to gain just one more night with her. He even goes to her house, bringing sophistry to bear on her brainy husband. In defeat, like Hannibal in The Road to Rome, he is victorious...
Tariffs & Stickling. Neville Chamberlain, with his dark and feverish eyes, his husky voice and his cold, consuming passion for Empire, loomed last week as a Chancellor of the Exchequer not much less striking than crippled Philip Snowden, who as Lord Privy Seal now holds a mere sincere. Mr. Chamberlain affects neither the icy monocle of his Peace-Prizing halfbrother, Sir Austen, nor the blatant orchid boutonniere of their late, great father "Old Joe." Neville used to be Lord Mayor of Birmingham, the Chamberlain family bailiwick. Once before he was Chancellor of the Exchequer but so briefly that he never brought...
...four sets of British folk in a small Paris hotel. In one room are three men and a 1 boy come to Paris-Berris to them, as they are actually British-for a lark. In another are two lovers, enjoying the prelude to what promises to be a grand passion. A porky gentleman and his porky wife argue good-naturedly in still another. The last group consists of a dying novelist, his wife and two charming children. At the close of Act I a fire is started by one of the merrymakers. Playwright Galsworthy then sets out to show...
There are many professors at their desks who can stir the young freshman soul to passion and effort, who can light the flame and let nature do the rest. There are young specialists who probably are poor teachers, because they are specialists and because they are young. New York Times...
...idea of being funny at Irishmen's expense TIME overlooks the fact that there were no potatoes in Ireland-or anywhere else in Europe-a thousand years ago. Will TIME forgive a slightly nauseated Irishman (Mick, Harp, Turkey, Flannel-mouth, if TIME prefers) if a mild passion for truth makes him a bit insensible to fun-loving TIME'S preference for what it deems to be humor...