Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Russian retail clerk who worked in a dry-goods store in the village of Kukarka (now Sovietsk). Papa Skriabin, though far from wealthy, owned a roomy frame house; his children went to high school and learned the violin, which Molotov is said to have played badly but with soul. Molotov has claimed the composer Skriabin as an uncle, but Skriabin's family does not reciprocate...
...Manhattan family, it was mother who made the glamour columns: Jolie Gabor announced that she planned to marry a fellow Hungarian who "looks like a diplomat, has the soul of a poet and the mind of an American businessman." Any chance of daughters Eva and Magda finding new husbands? Said Jolie sadly: "It is difficult to find husbands for them. They are not little Cinderellas. Always they have had the best minks and the best diamonds...
...German empire, German Lutherans believed, was the God-blessed state of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans. "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers," Paul had said, "for there is no power but of God." Luther had explained this himself, saying: "We must firmly establish secular law and the sword, that no one may doubt that it is in the world by God's will and ordinance." This gave the state, in largely Protestant Germany, a formidable foundation...
...only hope for the state is to give it "a content, a goal, a soul," i.e., to make it the state of Romans before it becomes the monster of Revelation. This the church can and must do, by projecting its influence into the schools, the factories, every walk of life. Even this effort may not succeed. "It may be," writes Dibelius, "that the church of Jesus Christ has but the same task as the chaplain in a prison where those condemned to death are kept: to prepare mankind...
...Body & Soul. In Birmingham, Ala., Public Library Director Emily Danton reported that the two library items most often stolen are: 1) calorie charts, and 2) Bibles...