Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faces came cheers, whistles, shouts of "Long Live Bourguiba," and snatches of the Neo-Destour song: "We will die, we will die, but the country will live." Banners proclaimed: "Hail to Our Supreme Fighter." Bourguiba cried emotionally: "I'm coming back to a people that has found its soul...
There's the Devil to pay these nights just off Broadway on the stage of Manhattan's 46th Street Theater, but a sentimental Washington baseball fan who has bartered his soul for a .524 batting average gives every sign of welshing on the deal. To secure his investment in this "wife-loving louse," Satan calls in one of his ablest assistants, a flame-haired siren named Lola...
...overseas blind, Helen Keller, an indomitable 74, arrived in Burma, was promptly introduced to Premier U Nu. She explored his face with her sensitive hands, pronounced him "a philosopher and a poet." Later, meeting reporters in Rangoon, Helen Keller was asked by Roving Journalist Vincent (Rage of the Soul) Sheean how she felt about one of Playwright George Bernard Shaw's loftier dicta, which, as Sheean recalled, went: "Of all Americans, Miss Keller is the least blind and deaf." Miss Keller replied: "That is not what he actually said. It was at a meeting with G. B. Shaw when...
...idea that a man should work hard and efficiently so that he can have more time and money to cultivate his soul is out-of-date. Now, "the job is the life. This is what must be made meaningful . . . What happens to people in the course of producing may be far more important than the end product. Materialism is not a satisfactory 'skyhook...
Everybody knew Frankie-in a way. James D. Norris, millionaire president of the International Boxing Club-which is the heart, pocketbook and sordid soul of American prize fighting-had known him for 20 years. Used to dunk doughnuts with him, as a matter of fact. What did Frankie do for a living? Well, Jim Norris wouldn't know about that. They were just sort of social friends...