Word: soul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night as this Troilus sighed his love toward the Grecian tents where Cressida lay. . . . In such a night did This-be fearfully o'ertrip the dew . . . In such a night stood Dido with a willow in her hand . . . . In such a night . . . . I'd mortgage my immortal soul to be free in such a night. Yet in such a night to be compelled to study! Ugh!" With murder in his heart he turns his back upon the moon, for that way madness lies: And back he goes to juggle dead men's thoughts deep dug from books in such...
...idea. Finally, Judge Black's resolution to go forward even unto mortgage was accepted by the meeting, 89-26. "I am gratified and praise God," said the pastor to newspapermen and added: "The majority of the small opposition group do not attend our weekly prayer meetings or our soul-winning services...
...Harcourt, Brace ($2.00). At Vanderbilt University, they well recall young Instructor Johnson. He has turned novelist since he left the English Faculty, but still lives in Nashville, Tenn. Reading his gentle arraignment of professorial hypocrisy, they will scowl, or be enthusiastic, self-consciously. The decline and fall of the soul of Dr. J. Tanksley Parkhurst, who took his Chaucer and his reputation seriously enough to become Dean, is staged at Thurston College, New England; but the winters are mild, the "you-alls" plentiful. Vanderbilt will take it personally. At other colleges, if the book is read, more detached criticism will...
...next Prophezzor had this to say: "Poise is the distinguishing mark of an educated man. And what is so conductive to poise as mastery of a foreign tongue? To acquire a new language is to acquire a new soul. It destroys narrowness, provincialism, and national conceit. It makes for sympathetic understanding. That is why we require the Satellites, all of them, to obtain a reading knowledge of either Chinese or Sanscrit, and an elementary knowledge of the other...
Townsend told Kitty that he loved her with all his soul; but, after all, there were other things to consider. ... A plague town, of course, was dangerous but not necessarily fatal if one took precautions; he advised no unboiled water, no lettuce. She returned to her husband, delighted to be going to Mei-tan-fu, where people were dying...