Word: soul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion was the 50th anniversary of Hornaday's work as a newspaperman, a tribute to him as dean of Washington newshawks since he went to Washington at the time Roosevelt I was inaugurated. Last week Roosevelt II said: "There was-there is-among Washington newspapermen no gentler, truer soul than Jim Hornaday." The occasion was the news that Correspondent Hornaday, 72, had just dropped dead of heart failure...
...Laval, at bay last week on his front bench, scores of Deputies screamed "Resign! Resign!" Hysteria mounted until a reference to "my country" by the Premier subjected him to a torrent of demands that he speak instead of "our country." This he thereafter did with evident galling bitterness of soul. In their element were the forces of French antiFascism, led by millionaire Socialist Leon Blum. "Mr. Premier' he crushingly observed, "I am surprised, nay I am amazed, to see that you are still 'Mr. Premier.' There are some mistakes which a public man does not have...
...selling newspapers on a tough and highly competitive corner in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Later he became a peanut & popcorn peddler on Coney Island excursion boats, a venture which ended by his owning the boats. He is now Broadway's No. 1 ticket speculator. As body & soul of the Twentieth Century Sporting Club, with Fisticuffer Joe Louis under exclusive contract, he has virtually a strangle hold on the U. S. prizefight business. Last week Mike Jacobs entered a new field. Amid a gale of sarcastic laughter from sportswriters, he set out to remove the game of contract...
Admittedly, living in a philosophical Tower, an old hag to tend one--a dab of wood, gentle soul!--warm friends about, the treasures of the past at one's finger tips--and a sensitive mind to feel the world--'tis all so easy to warm one's toes and say: "The purpose of life is to live!" Live, mind you, as an artist paints a picture--not modernistic, if you please--harmoniously, a little color here and there, purposively, and as omits the fancy, in contemplation...
...Chinese are masters of the art of living. It's as much their religion as their belief in the dualistic animism of the universe. Man is made up of two souls: "Yang" a "good soul"; "Vin" the soul of darkness and evil. No harm comes to a good man; that's the way the universe is constituted. With this belief and the worship for the dead the Chinese manage to live a life tranquil and indifferent to the "ways of the world". Strength of character more than strength of mind; knowledge is important as it affects the character...