Word: passionately
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...TIME found Mr. Frankau's latest novel, Masterson, "a novel-reader's novel, splashed with color ... a good man's education in riches, passion, love." (TIME, May 3.) Other Frankau novels: Men, Maids and Mustard-Pot; Peter Jackson, Cigar Merchant; Life and Erica...
...eloquently Tory. Yet, in spite of all this, the author seems to have become so absorbed by John Masterson and his unfortunate bride that as the story proceeds he forgets sociology and all such. The result is simply an unforgettable story of a good man's education in riches, passion, love...
...dead when, after he had married Mildred Ashley, he learned that Nina had gone away to bear his son. By then his marriage was a failure, though he did not know that it failed because he would have been revolted to find in a fellow aristocrat like Mildred the passion he sought in life. And by then Mildred too was carrying a son of his. They had to stay married...
...western town in the throes of a revival meeting is the locale of the play. A strapping shouting preacher (Crane Wilbur) is king of this overwrought community for the time. A tired, unhappy woman (Alice Brady) falls in love with him and mistakes her passion for religious ecstasy. As her mind falters under the furious lash of her misinterpreted desire, she kills her stupid husband. Then she goes...
...actress and a disinherited Baltimore mooncalf. The child was sheltered, not adopted, by hardheaded John Allan of Richmond. He was insecure in a town of lordly livers. And what went deeper, at home and at school his mother's calling was made his shame. Psychoanalysis calls his loyal passion for her dead purity a "fixation." Another woman once laid a kind hand upon his head, and upon her too he "fixed" after her death...