Word: soule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resents things said about his wife by his good friend Bud Clark (Preston Foster) and in an argument Bud falls to his death. John loses his nerve, cannot climb, lives on money another man gives his wife. Then he wins $262, repays her, kills her to cleanse his soul. As he is on his way up the skyscraper again the Law overtakes...
...helmet on his head and sent him to the front to do sketches of the troops and large oil portraits of the generals. It was this series of War pictures that won him his knighthood in 1918. But beside the successful portrait painter there was another Billy Orpen. His soul revolted frequently at painting the smug faces of Success. He never lost his fondness for Gypsies and the color of the West of Ireland. He made brilliant little landscapes. He would sneak away from his job at the Versailles Peace Conference to paint the honey-bearded chef of the Hotel...
Moved by the "cries of distress" of the children and the "great multitudes of honest, willing workers forced into idleness," His Holiness appealed for a "crusade" that will give assistance "to the body" and likewise "comfort and aid to the soul." Let the clergy act as a point of union for all the charitable bodies of the faithful, "both by preaching and through the Press...
...answer everyone strained forward, especially Miss Megan Lloyd George, buxom M. P. "Mahatma, sir," smiled Mr. Gandhi, "means 'an insignificant person.' " Hastily the British chairman interjected, "I am sure we all know that Mahatma is an Indian term meaning 'the embodiment of a great soul.' " "What do you think would happen," came the next question, "if we gave India her independence and got out? Don't you know, Mr. Gandhi, that civil war would start and that the Moslems of India would whip the Hindus!" Mr. Gandhi is a Hindu. Nine-tenths and more...
...businessman did not lose his idealism. "The American did not believe he was selling his soul to Mammon, but thought he was merely pledging it for the moment, as he was ready to pledge anything he owned, with the hope of ultimate gain. He could not be quite comfortable about devoting himself solely to business until he had made it a virtue, and he always looked forward to a future which would justify spiritually his intense present preoccupation with the material. . . . We were boilingly busy. We must make our fortunes while there was still a chance in a new country...