Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gandhi. The Mahatma, well-informed, later asked students what they would have him teach. Eagerly they sought seclusion, consulted. Would it be political history from this great leader who had well-nigh secured Indian independence in 1920 by his famed policy of "passive resistance?" Or sociology?-Gandhi's profound knowledge of the "caste" system was none the less because in 1920 he had failed to persuade the masses and the "untouchable castes" to treat each other as "blood brothers," thereby causing his political defeat through lack of unity. Well he knew the Brahmanic conception of an indelible hereditary stain...
...Middleaged, but slender and quick as a girl, she was by title only Oriental secretary to Sir Henry Dobbs, British High Commissioner to Irak. Actually Sir Henry, King Faisal of Irak, and Premier Abdul Mushsin Beg al Ga'dun, deferred consistently to her as the most brilliant and profound feminine apostle of Anglo-Mesopotamian concord who ever lived. The kingdom of Irak was in sober truth her realm...
...used to buy art works for Kansas City. It is perhaps fortunate that the men who are paying it-Irwin Kirkwood, present editor and son-in-law of Mr. Nelson, in cooperation with the managing editor, the general manager, and the chief editorial writer-have a profound respect for a business they know a good deal about, the business of running a newspaper...
...profound is the spiritual veneration of Italians for their quite literally "beloved Papa" (the Pope) that, where only the transient material world is concerned, a jest may be thus bandied between poet and Pope without creating the scandal which would ensue in Anglo-Saxon lands. During Holy Year (1925) carefree Latins were to be seen daily flinging banana skins and chocolate wrappers upon the floor of St. Peter's, and greeting the Pope when he appeared with just such excited squeals and shrieks as a large family of happy children bestow upon their temporal father...
...genteel urban sponsorship of her Cousin Pauline, a sparse-bosomed virgin "intensely moved" by Abolition, parlor feminism and the Great Minds of the day. Lanice has "evinced genius" in articles for Godey's Ladies' Book, and Cousin Pauline burns to enroll her among the Great Minds-profound Mr. Emerson, droll Dr. Holmes, dowdy Mrs. Stowe (Harriet Beecher), majestic Professor Longfellow...