Word: soul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more bum Brahms and Beethoven, played by groups of amateurs on their flutes, clarinets, fiddles, cellos. Its author is Gerald White Johnson, editorial writer of the Baltimore Sun, co-author of The Sunpapers of Baltimore. Though Author Johnson says he is dull of ear and asbestos of soul so far as "the fire of genius that burned in the young Mozart'' is concerned, he is an earnest flautist, plays twice a month in a Baltimore amateur ensemble called "The Faith, Hope & Charity Chamber Music Club...
...self-assuredly as though potent international conferences were an everyday occurrence, Mayor Schranz of 5,000-soul Nyon welcomed conferees on "piracy" in the Mediterranean to an E-shaped table in his flower-filled municipal assembly hall, remarking that some Swiss rivers empty into the Inland Sea. Nine nations were represented-Britain, France, Russia, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Greece, Rumania, Bulgaria, Egypt-and they were there to do something about the submarines that since the middle of August have preyed on neutral shipping attempting to run food, munitions and principally oil into Leftist Spanish ports. Very quickly French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos...
England has long boasted the so-called "Queen Bee" type of airplane which takes off, flies and lands without a soul aboard, being controlled by radio from the ground or by an accompanying plane. As yet it has no military importance because the system breaks down as soon as the "Queen Bee" gets out of sight of the operator. Last week the U. S. Army Air Corps announced in enigmatic but unusually enthusiastic language for that reticent group that it had gone the "Queen Bee'' one better. According to the Air Corps, an old single-motored Fokker...
...mosquitoes. He sank to one knee, and, with gestures, once more recited his famous poem, The Face on the Barroom Floor. Poet Titus said he now makes his living picking huckleberries. He wrote his famed poem in 1872 as the fifth episode of a seven-canto poem: The Ideal Soul. The scene was taken from a tavern in Jefferson, Ohio. There are now more than 1,000 versions that have sprung up anonymously...
...rather than in terms of action. Not since the silent French film, The Passion of Joan of Arc, has such dramatic use been made of the human face. As face after face looks out from the screen the picture becomes a sort of portfolio of portraits of the human soul in the presence of disaster and distress. There are the earnest faces of speakers at meetings and in the village talking war, exhorting the defense. There are faces of old women moved from their homes in Madrid for safety's sake, staring at a bleak, uncertain future, faces...