Word: soul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small white birch to be known as the Unknown Soldier's Mother's Tree. Austrian-born Mme Ernestine Schumann-Heink, eight times a mother, eleven times a grandmother, twice a great-grandmother, sang "Taps." Secretary of War Hurley declaimed: "The American mother gave to the nation its soul...
...laurel plucked by ruthless hands from John Harvard's pate. The Houses in their crass contemporaneity he is reconciled to not by the vulgar convenience of dining-room and private shower, but purely as breeding-grounds of the traditions of the future. In the meantime he feeds his soul on what remains of times done: the charming fatuity of a raucous voice calling for "Rinehart!" and especially the Yard Concerts, which are always with...
...Nelson and saw him innumerable times and this is not a fish story.) Where he came from was a mystery, as no fish remotely resembling him were ever found in that vicinity. But he was apparently of the dolphin family, about 20 ft. long and snow-white-a friendly soul who for lack of companions of his own species had "struck up a friendship" with steamers. As the daily boat entered the Pass he would come rushing alongside and swish delightedly back & forth in front of the ship and rub himself along the sides, while tourists hung over the rail...
...different witness was baldish Percy Rockefeller. Shy and beady-eyed, looking to the camera much like his cousin's friend Soul Surgeon Frank Buchman (see p. 22), he was prodded unmercifully by Counsel Gray. He said he could not remember what stocks he had sold last January (12,000 shares), although he had covered them only five or six weeks ago. Mr. Gray could get no substantiation of stories that Mr. Rockefeller, sitting on bank boards, would learn what stocks would be forced on the market at certain figures, after which the bears would force prices down below...
State's Attorney (RKO) shows John Barrymore himself making an address to a jury which is surely as impassioned as the one (in A Free Soul) which last year got his brother Lionel a prize from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. He is a criminal lawyer named Tom Corrigan, inclined to making cynical observations on the discrepancies between justice and the law. One evening he sees a girl (Helen Twelvetrees) brought into court on a vice charge. He defends her, makes her his mistress. Like Lawyer Day, Lawyer Corrigan is thick with thieves. A political gangster (William...