Word: passionately
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...heiress, famously a beauty, jaunts over to Italy in her own yacht. Fortunately for the love interest, her entourage includes two clean-limbed Anglo-Saxons, and the scion of a noble French family. At twenty-six Janey has experienced everything but true love. Disillusioned therefore regarding the tender passion, she rejects her three seagoing suitors, and resolves to barter her wealth and her person for some prince in reduced circumstances...
...grief was incurable and without rights and should have hidden itself. But as it was a grief without understanding, it was also a grief without inhibition, and this produced a great pain . . . the paternal heart of the professor was lacerated by this misery, by the humiliating terrors of this passion, without rights and without cure." But the "night of a child establishes so broad and deep an abyss between one day and the next" that in the morning Lorie's grief was quite forgotten...
Heard Bishop Fisher of India saying: "What we need is to restore the passion of the Church in a world-wide mission and lift Christ above the entanglements of the nations," and pointing out that college students regard missions, missionaries, and missionary work with complete and dismal apathy...
Kemal was, of course, the second husband of Halide Edib. She perhaps kindled the first elemental spark of his present passion for Occidentalizing Turkey. But long before the fire burned, Kemal and Halide had parted. She divorced him when he proposed to take a second wife under the old polygamous law of Turkey. Paradoxically he turned to this same old law when he wished to divorce his second wife, and accomplished the deed simply by repeating three times the traditional formula: "I divorce you." Shortly thereafter the new Turkish code, containing Occidentally stringent divorce laws, came into effect...
...this case, the male principal is Gino (Charles Farrell), who paints minor masterpieces more often than he takes a bath. When Gino takes Angela back to Naples, the police recognize her and clap her into jail. When she is finally released, Gino exhibits a desire to strangle and a passion to wed. Noble, he weds. The warm, misty sky of Naples and the warm beauty of Miss Gaynor were not missed by the camera...