Word: soul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saying that "a new secession of the true German spirit and soul is beginning." Emil Ludwig in the current Nation proceeds to explain the causes of this movement. When Wilhelm II became emperor, there was a similar secession. The great German artists withdrew from the official circle, and the court favorites were pedestrian mediocrities. With the coming of the revolution however, Ludwig felt, "the eternal division between intellect and state, to which the tragedy of Germany was due, had been ended." The ministries were given to men of real ability, In 1921 the spirit of liberalism prevailed...
Whenever trouble brewed in ancient Rome, messengers sped south to the Cumaean Rock, a many-chambered volcanic promontory twelve miles west of Naples. Therein, "hidden far from sight within her sanctuary dark and drear, dwelt the dread Sibyl, whom the Delian seer inspired with soul and wisdom to unfold the things to come"* Complaisant with the Romans' plea the Sibyl would shuffle inscribed leaves, deal them upon her grotto floor, to be construed there by her votaries...
...Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores and demanded his person. The prelate, who somewhat resembles the present Pope, knew what to expect. As the Vatican's Apostolic Delegate (appointed 1929) he was the head & front of his church in Mexico. The Pope's encyclical Acerba animi ("bitterness of soul'') of last fortnight, complaining about the Mexican Government's treatment of the church, had stirred angry talk among the irreligious populace, had brought forth a prompt and bellicose retort from Mexico's new young Provisional President...
...watched in patience, hoping for peace chiefly through the truce arranged between Church and State by the late Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow. Last week Pius XI ceased to bide, uttered a sharp protest in the stately, tremulous latinity of a Papal encyclical headed Acerba animi ("bitterness of soul...
...under guard in another place (TIME, Sept. 26) simply was not carried out. Instead Mr. Gandhi was moved to the largest room in Yerovda Prison and it was thrown open to delegations and personages of all sorts who ceaselessly moved in & out, arguing or pleading with the Great Soul who remained cheerful but unmoved, inflexible in his purpose: To eat no food until His Majesty's Government reached an agreement with Hindus of all castes terminating the decree of the Raj that the higher castes should constitute an electorate separate from the Untouchables in seven of the nine provinces...