Word: soule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orchids. While the Missouri's balky loudspeaker system alternately shrilled and roared, Brazil's Foreign Minister Raul Fernandes told Truman: "You moved the soul of Brazil, and the welcome you received represents the position you have won in the hearts of our people...
...They drink tea, sweat, dry themselves with a towel and start all over again. A Muscovite has seen a lot, knows his worth, but doesn't put on airs. He has an open Russian face, not necessarily with an uplifted bulbous nose. He also has an open soul. He is not cold like Petersburg people-he is passionate and sincere. He keeps all holidays and fast days, but during Muslenitsa (butterdish time; i.e., carnival) he stuffs himself with bliny, drinks beer and vodka until he is dizzy, rides around in sleighs, shouts, plays the accordion and-sins. A Muscovite...
Velasco took office the second time proclaiming his "profoundly leftist soul," but soon the country swung right and Velasco swung with it. This burned up the army, one of the few in Latin America with longtime leftist sympathies. In addition to its other failings, the Velasco Government had done little to combat the country's postwar inflation, which is one of the highest in the hemisphere. Last week the Sucre, which was once a worker's daily wage, stood at 13 to the dollar...
...hard-riding Moors suggest that, being a true child of his age, he never quite outgrew his childhood. According to one of the painter's closest friends, Poet Charles Baudelaire (who also gave life quite a Peter Panning), savagery was "the most precious part of [Delacroix's] soul, the part devoted entirely to painting his dreams and to the cult...
Down to Earth (Columbia). In Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), a suave master of celestial ceremonies helped the soul of a dead prize fighter to inhabit the body of a surviving one, with happy results in the ring and at the movie box office. This time Mr. Jordan reaches higher for heavenly intervention, and escorts it a bit lower. The rosy shade of Terpsichore (Rita Hay-worth), outraged by a Broadway work-in-progress called Swinging the Muses, comes down to earth and gets into the act. She immediately dances herself into the lead of the show, and into...