Word: soule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phones in every room, and room service. The only variant note is struck the character of Ora Weagle, the higbrow and pseudo-poet, whose weakeness and essential meanness are so completely unredeemed by any winning ability that Mr. Lewis has all too little difficulty in convincing his readers that soul of the practical American is absolutely more worthy than that of the elitist. Such a tale was bound to be told of a one-track mind and therefore decidedly lacking in any subtlety of characterization...
...shall clean up Paris simply, and with all my heart and soul," said...
...readers who enjoy vigorous writing will be glad to be rubbed the wrong way by Spengler's harsh aphorisms: "If few can stand long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace. . . . The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give his life for it. ... Let it for once be said outright, though it is a slap in the face for the vulgarity of the age: property is not a vice, but a gift, and a gift such as few possess...
...himself the highly aristocratic post of Master of the Hunt in Prussia. "We must eliminate the vulgar 'meat hunter' in favor of the true German sportsman," cried Master GÖring. "Ample wild life must be maintained to preserve the German animal world as the living soul of the Fatherland...
...world cruise. Of the same category as Grand Hotel, Sea Level uses a large cast, plays few favorites, finds what plot it can in the personal history of some of its characters, their cat-&-mouse or cat-&-cat relationships. Alec Reade, like Kringelein in Grand Hotel, is a timid soul whose sentence of death has given him his first and last holiday. His cabin mate, "Pal" Turner, is a loud fellow of the baser sort who honestly wants to be friends with everybody. Banker Crowell quickly establishes himself as chairman of all entertainments. "Baby" Weedon...