Word: soul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn. Sussman Levinsky left $2.130.81 to be divided by his wife and six children, warning them against contesting his will: "My soul will fly among you everywhere, and will fly after you wherever you go, and will keep my eyes open upon every movement of each of you. Xo matter where you will go and stand, either in daytime or nighttime, or in your dreams, I will guard over you. and watch you, and I will whistle into your ears Oh! Oh! Which will mean you have not obeyed your father, that you should thereafter suffer...
...picture would have been much better if it had been more explicit about how its most interesting personage reaches this sad predicament. A plot which is more of an insinuation than a narrative implies that the soul of Bavian's dead mistress, a lady sadist executed for strangling three of her lovers, comes back to inhabit temporarily the body of a pure young heiress (Carole Lombard) who consults Bavian to get news of her dead twin brother. The heiress faints during a seance; when she wakes up, her eyes have a fiendish glitter. She entices Bavian aboard her yacht...
...days before Prohibition laid its blight upon the land, 19 great breweries were domiciled here and thousands of barrels of Cincinnati brew were shipped to connoisseurs of good beer in all parts of the country. The soul-satisfying output of Lackman, Hauck, Moerlein, Windisch-Muhlhauser. Wiedemann was known and praised and gurgled by discriminating throats everywhere. And now that blight has been lifted. They too are staging a mighty comeback...
...Chicago Globe. He appears on the screen captured by Riffs; he is rescued by the French, to the accompaniment of bullets, and grumbling by the agent of the Times. He goes to Paris, is decorated, and leaves for Moscow with his employer's inamorata, a girl with a soul. There he tricks the members of other papers, sits with Stalin, and generally conducts the sensational journalism of which he is an advocate. He is encouraged by Kate, a newspaperwoman, who, rather obviously, really cares for him, and whom he does not appreciate. Eventually, he is discharged by his paper...
...part of the system of philosophy which is brought to an magnificent completion in this work. This, while on the surface the first section, called Sociological, of the book is a history of the gradual realisation in fact of the Platonic-Christian ideal of the dignity of the human soul, it is, underneath, a justification of Professor Whiteheadi's extreme rationalism, showing that the most abstract ideas, if they are of the right sort, do eventually have a strictly every-day usefulness. The second section, likewise, is a history of cosmologies, on the surface, but the purpose of this history...