Word: soul
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...charge their old prices for seats and finished the season with a dividend which would just about buy each of them three pounds of butter or half a pair of shoes. The players have their crafts; they make enough pottery and carve enough wood to keep body and soul together under ordinary circumstances. But during the long and arduous season of training through which they must go to produce the play, the baying of the wolf grows louder and louder. In order to continue to give the play, in fulfillment of their vow made over three hundred years ago, they...
Egyptians who do not support opera. " The man who hath no music in his soul is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. Let no such man be trusted...
...reading a reserved book in the Library today, a really beautiful volume done on vellum-like paper, and probably worth well over five dollars. At the end of the assigned portion of the contents some weary soul had poured forth his ennui--not in song, but in some weavy chirographs which may have been Arabic or Greeg Shorthand. The same pen had engraved at the top of the page, "Mich, dich, sich, Teufel", and at the margin a sketch which bore some resemblance to the professor in the course for which the book was prescribed...
...ADDING MACHINE?The utmost in expressionism. Mr. Zero kills his employer, is executed and looks over the hereafter. He finds heaven lacking in respectability. A fantastic study of a stunted soul...
...think back to the eighteenth century or the Italian Renaissance, it is obvious that in our day and generation, the Classics are somewhat in eclipse. But there have been times when the clouds were even more thickly about them. As Odysseus remarked to his soul, "Bear it, brave heart; thou hast borne harder things than this." To those who know what treasures are laid up in the literatures of Greece and Rome, what opportunities for a culture at once nobly aristocratic and broadly human, there is no question that however long deferred, the day of the ancients will come again...