Word: soul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws and the processes of nature. The even more important task of religion, on the other hand, is to develop the consciences, the ideals and the aspirations of mankind. Each of these two activities represents a deep and vital function of the soul of man, and both are necessary for the life, the progress and the happiness of the human race...
...jubilees have always been considered occasions when the genius of a people betrays itself. But to have genius there must be some unity of race; and when there is no New Yorker but only a man from New York, one is at a loss to know just which soul "of the greatest city in the world" is to he found in the present Silver Jubilee...
...people, the people's choice. He lunches with the Street, hobnobs with Washington Square, nods to Fifth Avenue, and chucks the Bowery under the chin. He is a "man so various that he seemed to be not one, but all mankind's epitome". Mayor Hylan is the soul of New York; it is his Jubilee...
...Warner plays a kindly part in a comedy of disillusionment. He turns from soap manufacture to painting, puts his soul on canvas, and sells it?as the skin you love to touch...
Johnny Kilbane, featherweight boxing champion: "Newspapers put this lyric in my mouth: ' I have no fear,' says John Kilbane, ' Of any Eugene Criqui; ' Why, bless my honest Irish soul, 'I'll make his voice sound squiki...