Word: passionately
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Getting nominated for Congress-and elected-is different from Aldermanic campaigns in Manhattan. Mrs. Pratt's opponent, Phelps Phelps, is experienced and determined. Politics is a passion with him. He is a sort of Republican Tammanyite who spends all but a fragment of the $70,000 per annum or so which his father left him, on presents for his precinct voters-milk, Christmas stockings, coal, Easter eggs...
...pitiable little scene passed almost unnoticed amid the triumph of MONDISM. Famed A. J. "Emperor" Cook, the fighting Laborite who precipitated the General Strike, rose and began to address the Congress with torrential passion, crying that trade unions exist not to cooperate with employers' associations but to wring concessions from them...
Afghanistan's new flag is a further product of His Majesty's consuming passion for Occidentalizing Afghanistan-a passion which he memorably indulged, last week, by compelling Members of the National Assembly to shave off their patriarchal beards, lay aside their flowing robes, and climb into pants, shirts, coats (TIME, Sept...
...Daughter of a Rhinelander, she was brought up to winter in Manhattan, summer in Newport, travel in Europe. Her most brilliant work reflects Fifth Avenue society of the '90s (in her House of Mirth, in her Age of Innocence), but oddly enough her masterpiece concerns the passion and remorse of a New England farmer, Ethan Frame. Author Wharton is the only woman upon whom Yale has conferred the doctorate of literature...
...rubber-company father, distressed, arranges to remove the cultured Gaul to Ohio, hoping Daughter will be disillusioned by his Old World fragrance among robustuous U. S. odors. Chameleon Pierre turns Babbitt, nearly estranges the girl while ingratiating himself with her father, ultimately wins her with a recrudescence of Gallic passion when his success is dramatically jeopardized by an American rival. The farce is spotted with easy gags, is occasionally deft, never hysterical. Kenneth MacKenna as Pierre, Lucile Nikolas as Barbara, Harlan Briggs as Father make the most of it, provide an evening of contented chuckling...