Word: soulful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles soul-saver, set sail from Manhattan with her daughter Roberta and 75 pilgrims for the Holy Land. She said she intended to preach a sermon from the top of the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt, another (on the evils of gambling) at Monte Carlo, but denied she would fly over Russia dropping pamphlets denouncing religious persecution...
...influencing Wagner, even of distorting facts herself for the sake of proving Minna a shrewish, ill-bred woman and herself the ultimate inspiration, the great love of Wagner's life. That the Burrell documents provide a strong case none will deny. Minna was evidently a generous, badly abused soul and Wagner loved her. But Authors Hum and Root have weakened their argument by conducting it in a spirit of backtalk, by forgetting in their vindictiveness, that Tristan and Gotterdammerung will endure long after the names of Minna and Cosima have passed out of human remembrance...
...mechanized itself) women now work all night in the textile mills (a scandal against which Lancashire bitterly protests), and in India itself Mr. Gandhi has seen enough of the Machine Age and Big Business to convince him that these things must be destroyed if mankind would save its immortal soul. Yet Historian Upton Close, sympathetic though he is with Asians, acutely as he realizes the difficulty of their adjustment to mechanization, believes that upon this point St. Gandhi is butting against a stone wall which may smash him if he butts too hard...
Meat: Seeing that the English rulers of India were great, strapping John Bulls, guessing that this physique was due to meat, Mr. Gandhi resolved to violate the most sacred religious tenet of Hinduism: he ate a steak. His stomach, his mind and his soul quickly experienced a most excruciating triple torture. Thereafter the poor great man?the much-to-be-sympathized-with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi?resolved that even to free Mother India, dearer to him than life, he could not pollute himself with meat...
...character Diony Hall form the motif recurrent throughout. Behind the sudden death and vivid reality of the frontier life in Kentuck runs strands of memories from his days in Virginia. Such repetition of familiar ideas is helpful in conveying to the reader the longings of the pioneer woman's soul. The prose is melodiously in keeping with symphonic structure, possessing a meaty sensuousness seldom encounted in modern authors and rising at points to poetry...