Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world's foremost exponents of Spiritualism, he published much information about "summerland," the Spiritualists' hereafter (marriage, cocktails, wine, eternal youth, no childbirth). For the wicked, he believed, there is no Hell, only centuries of waiting "in a grey drab room." According to Sir Arthur's tenets his soul remained in abeyance, earthbound and neuter, for three days. By now it has been admitted to the full sybaritism of "summerland." Declared his son Adrian: "There is no question that my father will speak to us just as he did before he passed over. . . . My [parents] were devoted to each other...
...present welter of things, "Krish-naji sees something saner and finer emerging and a rather soul-sick intelligentsia turn to the astonishing and uncanny vitality of this stripling-scholar, not for bromidic guesswork, but for a bracing challenge to women and men to shake off ''bribe of Heaven and threat of Hell " and stand on their own feet...
Aimee Semple McPherson, soul-saver, returned to the U. S. (via Paris) from a trip to the Holy Land, with Bibles, lamps, some Palestinian garments (to wear in the pulpit of her Angelus Temple Church of the Foursquare Gospel) and bright yellow hair (it was reddish when she left the U. S.). While she whirled away on a 200-mile week-end trip through the Catskills, U. S. Customs agents checked her luggage, levied $138 against her in duties and penalties for undeclared imports. Returning to Manhattan to find she had made Page One all over the U. S., Sister...
...shades of the great King Carol [his granduncle] and Ferdinand the Faithful [his father] stand over me today, and the soul of my well-beloved father rejoices at seeing realized his last wish and most ardent desire. The example which my predecessors have given me of their infinite love for their country and defense of its interests will be followed to the full...
...British Blue Book further shows that in March of this year the Holy See informed His Majesty's Government that they "could not consent to a concordat on Malta so long as Lord Strickland [a Roman Catholic] remained in power." Vexed to the bottom of his stubborn Glasgow soul, Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson made his final reply to Pope Pius XI by withdrawing the British Minister to the Holy See, Henry Getty Chilton...