Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Matter of fact "Bill" Herridge, a cultivated man, successful and potent lawyer, member of a Canadian "good family" did excellent service for Mr. Bennett throughout the last Canadian election, is believed to be heart & soul for the Bennett policy of "Canada First!" (i. e. ahead of the Mother Country...
...idea that any "motherly soul" can show a varsity boat a few pointers on rowing, there may be a minimum of truth in it; but in actual practice it is absurd. If anybody can ride in the proposed coaching-excursion boats, who will there be left to fill the observation cars at New London? Peanut galleries are all right in their proper place, but there is a limit...
...fumes, and the Boston subway really represent progress. But he still holds firm to his belief that green grass and college campi are one and inseparable, and when it is proposed to remove a major part of the remaining vestiges of grass, particularly in the Yard, the Vagabond's soul recoils with horror. Controversy there is bound to be over the erection of a new chapel, and the Vagabond does not propose to stay out of the controversy. Here is his suggestion, humbly offered to a can-did world...
There is also the roaring command "Everybody to the bar! The drinks are on the house!" Immensely funny are the exaggerated writhings of William Farnum's conscience as the battle for his soul goes on between Little Mary and the Demon Rum. Funny is the frail barroom, which trembles as if it were about to go to pieces at the first premonition of the great fight scene. That these excellences are unintentional in no way detracts from the power of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room. Yet there is pathos in it too, for William Farnum and Thomas Santschi used...
...Body and Soul and Something to Remember You By (Brunswick)-Lee Sims's rambling jazz reproduces better than most classical attempts...