Word: soul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audiences and stuffed it down less eager throats. A pioneer in presenting new works, he has given Britishers their first taste of more new operas (including most of Richard Strauss's stage works) than anyone of his generation. Today he is regarded by his fellow Londoners as the soul of Covent Garden...
Moonlight Sonata (Pall Mall) has its soul in Parnassus, its feet in Grub Street. A trite British treatment of cinema's tritest theme, it makes the wobbly point that music hath charms to shoo the city slicker out of the country girl's heart. But what lofts it to the skies for two memorable reels is the piano-playing of 77-year-old Ignace Jan Paderewski, most notable pianist of his time, in cinema a tired old man in a tacky dress suit, a mismanaged...
...problem of combining four-hour Divisional examinations with a hearty lunch to keep body and soul together is one that caused a great deal of trouble to men in History and Government...
Suddenly a green light appeared off the port bow. And the Vagabond, who at times is a timid soul, thought of the liquor that he had proudly extracted from Halifax without paying the Canadian tax. He turned off the running lights and headed the ship slowly up into the wind. But almost immediately the green light turned into red and green and the black form of a cost guard cutter came out full against the sky. It steamed closer, and came alongside. In a queer voice the Vagabond tried to be nonchalant. "Bound for Marblehead," he called. "Leaving Bar Harbor...
...until the next morning was he shown the folly of his ways, when a soul-stirring expression of sympathy poured out of his mail-box. A distant collegiate acquaintance, driven by passion to the extremity of correspondence, pointed out how grossly maligned Harvard had been, how irreparably besmudged her lovely escutcheon. "Demand satisfaction at once!" the letter urged. "Oh, dear, if such a thing should happen to Yale...