Word: soule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried dapper ex-Premier Paul Reynaud, 66, who had been Pétain's predecessor: "I, like the rest of France, was fooled by the Marshal. ... He tried to destroy what remained of France's soul...
Sewage Flood. But heavy rains caused sewers to flood the city ten feet deep in some places. The price of coffins rose 150%, the cost of prayers for the soul soared from $5,000 to $15,000. And the need for both coffins and prayers increased because the people trusted garlic (almost unobtainable at $20 to $50 a stem), and red paper crosses pinned on their doors to prevent cholera. Others found a rooster tied to a corpse more efficacious. Many heard that a stagnant pool behind a certain temple would save them, and the police had to drive away...
...study in the farcical consequences of bigamy, examines the temptations which beset a none-too-bright barge captain (William Bendix) at each end of the Brooklyn-Utica haul. In Brooklyn, Captain Quilligan falls for a barmaid (Joan Blondell) who laughs and sings just like his sainted mother (rest her soul). In Utica, he is hopelessly enmeshed by a homebody (Mary Treen) whose cooking is more wonderful than anything the captain has tasted in the ten years since mother passed on (rest her soul...
...immortality; Greece with beauty; Rome with administration and law; France with rationalism; Germany with war; Britain with the freedom of the individual man. India, islanded by sea and land, and haunted by the hourly wanton foreclosure of life by death, looked within and found that its obsession was the soul and its creator, the problem of good & evil. It embodied this vision in one of the world's great faiths (Buddhism) and in religious works of great power (the Vedas and Upanishads). India, under its squalor and its filth, its superstitions and its cruel ties, its babble...
Westbrook Pegler, most glowering of columnists, suddenly bared to his readers a gentle, wistful soul. Sourball Pegler confessed that he had found his "stock of merry jape and ready wit" quite low, and was "considering steps to correct this. . . ." Whether his boss (Hearst) had told him to get off his Johnny-one-note of hate toward labor leaders, foreigners and New Dealers, or whether Pegler had decided all by himself to change his tune, no one knew. Wrote Pegler...