Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Milwaukee one Wellington Lytle, suicide, willed that ''my body should go to science, my soul to Andrew W. Mellon, and sympathy to my creditors...
...risque literature. The two-kinds-of-falsehood idea should furnish an analogy for a two-purposes-in-reading theory, by which what must be kept with holy zeal from the unconcenrated eyes of ordinary mortals can be read with propriety, and of course without danger to their purity of soul, by these unofficial collagues of Boston's Finest...
...garbage collector. . . . I banged down the top of my desk; I should correct no more deadening papers that day. The tap at my door proved to be Kate. She'd something, she said, she'd like to show me. . . . There were five hundred sheets entitled 'Soul Thoughts...
...picture-book king. He had "a long ugly nose . . . a pair of oblique eyes too deeply set, thin lips, a powerful jaw . . . a jutting chin;" was less than middle height, bald, thin-shanked, shabbily dressed. A great talker himself, though direct and blunt, he required others to be the soul of brevity. Like many autocrats, he preferred plain people to the aristocracy. His favorite hat, high-peaked, shapeless, banded with leaden images of saints, was famed. But once at least he ordered a new one. He wrote to his General of Finances: "I have forgotten to ask you to finance...
...Harvard in the new House Units. Is this to mean that the tradition of rooming in the Yard during one's Senior year is to be abandoned? If such is the case, it is a great pity. The Yard, with its ivy covered buildings, is the heart and soul of the University, and its atmosphere and traditions cannot be adequately replaced by any number of House Units, no matter how up-to-date and modern they may be. Very truly yours, Derk Bodde...