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...card. I go everywhere, I admire all kinds of country. I tried to live in France. But when I strike the open plains, something happens. I'm home. I breathe differently. That love of great spaces, of rolling open country like the sea-it's the grand passion of my life. I tried for years to get over it. I've stopped trying. It's incurable." When she was living in France she used to haunt the wheat fields; once while she watched the harvesting she burst into homesick tears...
...politico of the Philippines is, with the possible exception of the same species in Porto Rico, the most politically-minded individual under the U. S. flag. Politics is his profession, his badge of honor. He practices it with a holy passion. Last week the ninth Philippine Legislature, packed with politicos dedicated to independence from the U. S., sat for the first time. As custom requires, Governor General Dwight Filley Davis appeared before a joint session of the House and Senate to deliver his legislative message. He was heard in stony silence and allowed to depart without applause. He had dared...
...Worst of all . . . the church with a craving for a modernistic creed, the passion for creating a new Christianity...
Meanwhile in Missouri there was much bewilderment as the motive for Senator Hawes's crusading passion for Philippine independence. The question was not a live political issue there. His friends ascribed three reasons: 1) an original human and unselfish interest in freeing the Philippines; 2) publicity accruing to him as the leader of a Cause; 3) promptings of U. S. beet sugar interests which want to shut out the Philippine product. In Washington last week Governor General Davis' annual report on the Philippines was made public. He declared that, during the 1930 Depression, the islands had been saved...
Medals for weight-putting and other feats of strength were won by Student Locker-Lampson at Eton and Cambridge; in 1898 he won the Prince Consort's Prize for German; in 1900 edited the Cambridge undergraduate Granta. Amateur theatricals were still his passion after he became a barrister and later Lieutenant-Commander...