Word: soule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magnitude of the assault on Mrs. Luce by New Deal press and speakers was in ratio to the size of her attack on the New Deal. From Harold Ickes, whom she dismissed as "that prodigious bureaucrat with the soul of a meat ax and the mind of a commissar," all the way up to the President, she spared no New Dealer. No other Republican orator except Candidates Dewey and Bricker hit the President so hard, so often and before such large crowds. None spoke so sharply...
Like muddy, bloody Passchendaele 27 years before, the Scheldt battle was fought under soul-sickening conditions...
...cigar between his teeth and a faded ten-gallon hat pushed back on his white hair. His old friend from the U.S. Senate stepped down, rushed forward, hand outstretched. Old Jack Garner clapped him on the back, beaming: "I'm glad to see you, Harry, bless your old soul...
Then, suddenly, it would all be over; as a light switch is clicked, the minds of a majority of the people would have been painfully made up, after much soul-searching-and then Tom Dewey would either quietly return to his tasks in Albany, or would have emerged as the youngest of U.S. Presidents, the new champion...
...takes a vacation from musical comedy and variety to play Elwood with a quiet, wistful humor that in pure delight. If you've ever wondered whether Fay could do anything well but those wry and funny commentaries on song lyrics, here's your answer. Elwood is a gentle, vague soul who says he tried being smart for forty years and then took a crack at being pleasant, and he advises pleasant. Fay achieves a casual distinction that you would not be likely to expect from a vaudevillian...