Word: soule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Portuguese, sympathetic with Spain's Whites, kept broadcasting to the Alcázar cadets from Lisbon: "The world is breathless before your heroism! If you can hold out you can have full revenge on your tormentors. Moroccan troops have instructions not to leave a soul alive in Toledo! They are within nine miles of the city butchering Marxist villagers." This false claim made mirth for the Reds who also guffawed when White Seville broadcast on Aug. 31 the lie that White "Colonel Yague is at the gates of Toledo...
...early season trivialities of the theater, with no play-wright seemingly concerned with any idea more vital than that an actress should stick to acting, there is something a bit exciting in the sight of a dramatist in deadly earnest, with a chip on his shoulder and his soul filled with the conviction that the institution he deplores is a national menace...
...spite of the change of form, it is clearly Galsworthy that we see, for the completely impartial presentation has sure earmarks of that placid soul. The favor of the spectator is skillfully kept hanging in the balance, and the genius of the conceiving spirit makes amends for the occasional crudity of the production, such as the very drab courtroom scenes. Mr. Rathbone's support is good but not notable...
...Dealers plunged heart and soul into spending the $175,000 to make the Conference a success. For six months quantities of press releases were poured out. Three auditoriums, in the Department of Labor, in the Department of Commerce and in the National Museum were equipped with "translators" whereby foreign delegates who did not understand English could, by picking up earphones, hear translations in French, German or Spanish. And finally for the grand banquet Washington's Union Station was hired and its vast waiting room-the only available place in the capital large enough to seat 3,000 guests-converted...
...white Van Dkye, dressed in a brilliant scarlet robe declared, "In this land where the development of techniques based on scientific knowledge reached its height, you have always held that science, apart from its practical applications, has a value of its own as a means of culture for the soul; that, like the Humanities, it has its place among the highest of liberating disciplines...