Word: passionately
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...Mansion Passion. Though Albania may lack roads, she should never lack for royal palaces. Last week Italian workmen and engineers, sent by King Zog's patron and protector, Dictator Mussolini, laid the foundations of a new royal palace, Zog's fifth, outside the grimy old capital city of Tirana. The building will cost more than one million dollars. His passion for mansions still unappeased, King Zog planned still a sixth palace in the ancient town of Kruga, home of Albania's 15th Century hero king, Scanderbeg the Great. Albanians recalled that at the time of King...
...native Albanians, Zog's mansion-passion was understandable. They know that so many fire-eating Albanians have sworn to kill him that prudent Zog seldom appears outside his palaces. Life in even five palaces becomes cramping to an active...
...French have a passion for pulling things down, but it is not their strong point. I should be glad if the statue King George on the Bowling Green in New York were still standing today--then I should know which George he was. It was destroyed during the Revolution...
...obvious, moreover, that the murals do perpetuate the feeling aroused in the heat of the fast war, and I should think that it would be a very high consideration for those fortunate people who are supposed to hold aloof from the worst phases of mob passion, to do everything possible to banish every trace of such an attitude in the interest of the future of mankind...
...snakebite. Throughout this silly, badly directed, exciting picture Mme. Baclanova depicts an unpleasant character by wearing beautiful clothes, telling love stories, singing in a dramatic soprano voice that was once justly celebrated in Moscow. Silliest shots: the hysterical colonist who complains that Africa is strangling him; Baclanova whimpering with passion to the strophe of African drums...