Word: soul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Libby Holman, backed up against a black velvet drop, performing economical, graceful gestures with her fingers, ably ululating an English importation called "Body & Soul." Rear-Admiral Fred Allen, attired in Antarctic haberdashery, lecturing before an incomprehensible hodgepodge projected on the screen ("the base camp"), explaining that his expedition has discovered and claimed "not ten, not 20, but 100,000 sq. mi. of brand new snow for the U. S." Also Fred Allen wondering if he whistled in his sleep: "When I woke up this morning there were four dogs in bed with me." Twelfth Night. Perhaps because the works...
...pineal gland is on a stalk (like a crayfish's eyes) and is near the top of the head. Here it has a distinguishable retina and lens. French Philosopher Rene Descartes (1596-1650) believed: "There is a small gland [the pineal] in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions more particularly than in the other parts." Contemporaries agreed...
...kill as one might at first be led to suppose, but the spirit of Tom Sawyer seems to have been sufficiently revived so that tales of heroism are not lacking. What chance has the collegiate youth against such splendor? Obviously nothing, and may God have mercy on his soul...
...furnished suite simultaneously with a half dozen or more of the head tutor's friends who had been invited in for tea and to inspect the newly-inhabited rooms. It was obviously, not the best time to make pictures, even if the photographer did have his heart and soul set on using up at least one plate on Mr. Hammond's combined library and living room. So the cameraman demurred, insisted that some other time would do: but Mr. Hammond was adamant. "Come in and take your picture. We will make room for you!" He shooed his guests...
...became frantically moved, however, caution returned to Bavaria's Mussolini. Perhaps he recalled spending a year in jail after his attempted 1923 Putsch. Changing tune, he concluded: "Ours is a revolutionary party but what we propose to capture is the German soul! We do not need to make a Putsch to gain control of the government. That is not necessary! Control will come to us in a legal manner. That, my friends, is what our enemies fear...