Word: soule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vienna rooming house, four years ago, an obscure German citizen named Wilhelm Kaiser died, unmourned by anyone except his landlady. That kindly soul, Frau Amalie Feix, had nursed Kaiser during his illness, had paid hospital and funeral bills. The only valuables he had left behind were three rings. These, Frau Feix thought, rightly belonged to her. She hoped to sell them to make up for her expenses. Frau Feix, however, ran smack up against the Big Four...
Calvin Coolidge, a kindred soul, might have called Dutra a "tight spitter." Brazil's President speaks, almost grudgingly, out of the corner of his mouth; he has no small talk. Officers of his staff once maneuvered him into a car with a colonel who was his runner-up for the title of the army's most taciturn officer, and asked the chauffeur to keep track of the conversation. Not a word passed between them on the drive from Rio's Catete Palace to Santos Dumont airport. As the car drove through the airport gate, the colonel muttered...
What makes Charles Dickens such a tough cadaver for the dissector is the fact that he embodied (in the words of his friend Leigh Hunt) "the life and soul ... of 50 human beings." Some of these 50 beings were pretty sleazy characters, and they have been sternly ignored by those whom Pearson calls "Dickolators." Most biographers have refused to admit that their idol often fell short of the ideal Dickens expressed: a "glowing, hearty, generous, mirthful, beaming [attitude] to Home and Fireside...
...there hardly breathes a senior with soul so dead that he won't admit Graduation is worth the time and that the money can be managed somehow. It's simply that plans have to be made reasonably far in advance, and scores of seniors don't face the Graduation issue until too late. It isn't too late yet--the Class of 1949, and all others who will receive degrees in June, can still get the pesky details out of the way and appear in staggering numbers five weeks or so from...
...living God . . . Such a God is not one who can easily be prayed to, and that is why the Roman Catholic laity have turned for their devotions inordinately to creatures-to the Blessed Virgin and the Saints. Similarly, I disagree with the rationalist Scholastic interpretation of the soul and of the nature of man, of the act of faith and the rigid distinction between the natural and the supernatural...