Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lossiemouth. not at Chequers, not at "No. 10" (Downing Street). To be quite alone, to escape even from familiar furniture and beloved books, James Ramsay MacDonald went secretly to a country house placed at his disposal by Earl De La Warr. There with awful Scotch solemnity he searched his soul, faced a decision which if taken would mean a final break with...
These and kindred thought welled up within the Vagabond's soul as he stared up some nights ago at the clear harvest moon. Cambridge is a hard place for such gifts of nature, but the wanderlust was upon him. There dashed across his mind the swift thought that the dubutante season had begun. It was a tough thought, but classes had just begun and there was the moon. And, for a bit of rationalization, it is the Vagabond's business to have traffic with all peoples. Like the cat that walks by himself all places are alike...
...from being one of depression, should be rather that of "elation" that the opportunity has come to show an understanding sense of an obligation which one would wish not to escape. The word itself, of ancient use, has persisted through the centuries to define the triumph of the soul of man over his environment. Thomas Chalmers, the great Scottish divine, in his treatise on the adaptation of external nature to the moral and intellectual constitution of man, speaks of an "elate independence of the soul." That independence is more difficult to declare and maintain in extremes either of want...
...meaning elasticity, which gave Linnacus the name for a family or genus of beetles "possessing the power of springing upward from a supine position for the purpose of falling upon their feet." Elation is a state of exultant, unceasing struggle for the highest things of the human mind and soul. The colleges and universities may become centres of such "elation" amid the world's depression. New York Times...
...Susan finally left him she had no money and nowhere to go. Chance led her to a flashy, disreputable pub where her sister Tamar was mistress. Tamar had long ago gone to the bad. was now comfortably married, well-off, happy. Susan swallowed her pride, rested and revived her soul. Her ambition stirred again when rich, pious David Pell fell in love with her. She persuaded him to start a new sect, to found a religious community in the country with herself as head priestess. When her husband Clarabut's death was reported in the newspaper Susan...