Word: soul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sufficient for two newspapers are now barely enough for one. And with this change in material affairs has gone an alteration of character, which makes the daily journal less opinionated and biassed, and more impersonally informative. The editor has become more an executive, and less a "Keeper of the Soul of America...
...seriously believe," he said in closing, "that the mind and soul of man has its proper work in hunting for happiness. Love, itself, was given us for a bigger thing than enjoyment. When universal love comes man will not be universally happy...
...tender, sympathetic fantasy of a shellshocked, misshapen War cripple, and a homely little governess, thrown into each other's company and finding each other beautiful by looking through the rosy spectacles of love. May McAvoy is equally effective with Barthelmess in revealing beauty of the soul by other means than a mere change in makeup...
...SOUL OF SAMUEL PEPYS-Gamaliel Bradford - Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). A penetrating, humorous and well-balanced appraisal of the Diarist. Gamaliel Bradford brings to his task that curious mixture of scholarly precision and sprightly irrelevancy of comment which has stamped him as America's most potent contender in the field of illuminating biography. If one would know more about Pepys than can be gleaned from the colyums of the Manhattan daily that records the doings of his modern prototype, ecce liber...
...there are Hamilton's own sensations on such occasions, when he always gives impromptu speeches. There is his visit to America where he met John Drew, the "Squire of Easthampton and the gardenia of the American stage"; his meeting with the "wistful Charlie Chaplin, who hides the soul of Punchinello beneath the comic rags of slapstick"; and that "delightful, naive and unconceited man, Will Rogers, who will never recover from his surprise and amazement at having been able to put over his rope-twisting chats upon a sophisticated audience...