Word: soul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...times you hear words that offend you, always put it down as the fact that they do not come from the soul of the American people, but from the politicians, who do not represent the Nation...
...Devi]-the quantity has, it is true, been decreasing. The first were failures and the last will scarcely do on these hot evenings. Yet it is the best of the lot. Jerome K. Jerome, the playwright, had the quaint idea of shifting, through a convenient necromancy, the soul of a young sailor into the shuffling old body of a miser. The sailor got the stinginess in the transaction and immediately they traded girls. For an act, it looked as if the veteran would marry the fragile heroine and the marine youth a wizened deaf old dame with 300,000 guilders...
...soul-stirring orations, he supported the Government's bill to give municipal votes to woman. The speech was the more remarkable because the Premier was bucking a majority of the Fascist Party. His speech was witty and to the point. More than once female giggles were heard from the gallery, but a certain frigidity was noticed in that region when he said...
...material in hand. It came from France and did not wait long to submit its witticisms to inspection. The general impression was that these witticisms could not stand the shift of language. They sounded heavy and a trifle sour. Miss Lee is beautiful enough but not the accomplished soul to sell this doubtful cargo...
...realized that it was anger that had made her surrender herself. She expected him, that night, to kill the last of her love for Ernley. In the morning, she would wake up empty of love, a wanton again. Daniel Shearer sat by the window, wrestled all night with his soul. He was, he realized at last, the kind of man whom women sacrificed. Aghast at her angry love, he sent her back to Ernley. Things like love were for the Crown; marriage was enough for the George...