Word: soul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then Dr. Seipel appeared to give evidence. In his breast was the bullet which Jaworek fired; in his soul was misericordia Domini. In the space of four minutes, this ascetic, pale and nervous priest said that his illness following the attack was in part owing to diabetes and that he felt for the prisoner "in a spirit of forgiveness." Jaworek sobbed. The jury found him guilty; the judge, taking into consideration his mental inferiority, sentenced him to three and a half years hard labor; and he was ordered to fast one day in every quarter...
Then the tale begins again with the mulatto weakling, David Lee, in whom the soul of a poet grew. His poems won him the love of a deformed little country mouse, Hebe, who painted pathetic pictures, wrote him beautiful letters and cowered from his sight for shame of her crumpled body. He cowered from her sight for shame of his color, and all the more so when she impulsively sent him a picture of her lovely sister, in place of her own likeness. When Hebe discovered David's secret, she loved him notwithstanding. When he discovered hers, his bitterness...
...Tennyson" justifies his existence, that shad, the finest of all fish, has not been eaten in London in the last fifty years. "I cannot write," says Mr. Moore. "I have lost my taste for reading; I can only think." Someone recently stated that Mr. Moore had pimples on his soul. That, though not easily demonstrable, may very well be. There are none, however, on his intellect, and he thinks in singularly clear and beautiful English...
...through. In the department of book reviews, three new books are reviewed at length, and five more are graced with brief notes, always capable and frequently keen. The captions, however, betray a slightly ruddy tint: "Barrett Wendell and His Letters" is headed "Pink Spats and Humanism"; "Sard Harker, Nautical Soul-Mates"; and Cabell's new book, for some reason that for the moment escapes the writer's mind. "Beyond Garters...
Plutarco Calles started life as a school teacher and was for 17 years a persuasive pedagog. In the exercise of his profession, he was imbued with some of that idealism that lit the soul of the late ex-President Woodrow Wilson. But in Mexico of that day he was not understood. From the position of Mayor of Fronteras, the proud Mexican aristocrats forced him. Not a public office was open to him. This drove him to the "soap-box"; and his so-called Radical speeches inflamed the workers to red-hot enthusiasm for him, his enemies to bitter hatred...