Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laffoon's face twitched with emotion as he raised one hand to swear, rested the other on a Bible opened at: "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God." In his inaugural address he promised more road building, economy, better schools. Republican Sampson by his side premised him "unstinted support," added: "We who love Kentucky realize one of the most outstanding needs is a moratorium on selfish, low, mean, part politics.""Both the Laffoon and the Sampson feet ached before...
...Breen is an easygoing, practical-joking soul (her dinner guests have been given rolls which squeak when bitten). But her wrath was aroused when the American Federation of Musicians refused her admittance on the grounds that the ukulele is not a musical instrument. The Federation, it seemed, had never even been asked to recognize it before. Yet the ukulele does not have to be played in a hit-or-miss fashion just because it is smaller and cheaper than its cousin, the union-approved guitar. Unlike the harmonica, lowliest of wind instruments, the ukulele has all the chromatics...
...Carr's "Life of Dostoevsky" brings out ht peculiarities of the Russian mind from an Anglo-Saxon point of view. His subject had to a high degree the introspective, soul-searching nature of an average Russian. What Dostoevsky lacked was the wide decriptive power of Tolstoi. Psychologically his work is intensely interesting, but this should not obscure the creative and artistic qualities of "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov." Mr. Carr's book is a dispassionate study of the great Russian novelist. The biographer believes that Dostoevsky, in his subtlety, brutality, piety, and lust, came nearer to the inconsistency...
...husband, I would have to tell him and he would shrink from me. Nor could I conceive children, who one day might ask me whether rumors were true that I slew my mother. The only way for me is to confess publicly and regain my peace of mind and soul...
Familiar in the U. S. saga, glorified by literature of the Horatio Alger school, is the newsboy. The soul of independence, he buys his papers with his own money, sells them by his own energy and wits, pockets the profits for himself or hands them over to his needy family. He often grows into a tycoon who in later years can point with pride to his youthful enterprise.* For the Curtis-Martin newspapers of Philadelphia the tradition of newsboy self-reliance was a saving fact last week. It prompted a State Supreme Court decision permitting the newspapers to deal with...