Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With all the strength that was in her proud soul, with all the ingenuity of a mother championing the dignity of her dead son, Alexandra tried to prevent the match between Georgie and May. But how could she succeed when against her were arrayed triumphant Obstinacy, personified by Queen Victoria, and triumphant Cynicism in the person of Alexandra's own husband, later Edward VII? It is reported on excellent authority that the Great Cynic laughed at his wife: "You are a sentimentalist, Alix, I am glad May is not. One in the family is enough...
Aimee Semple McPherson, notorious Los Angeles Evangelist, made known that, as soon as she returns from an inspection of the Holy Land, she will make an audible cinema based on events in her episodic life. Beginning with her soul saving activities in China as a preacher's widow, the continuity will include the scene of her still dubious abduction. Emerging from the sea in a dripping green bathing suit, she will be deftly anesthetized by villains, whisked away to the Mexican desert...
...Infinite Shoeblack. Will the whole Finance Ministers and Upholsterers and Confectioners of modern Europe undertake in joint-stock company, to make one Shoeblack happy? They cannot accomplish it, above an hour or two; for the Shoeblack also has a soul quite other than his stomach.?Sartor Resartus...
...portion of his gruel and the services of a doctor. The backslid daughter of a scholar, she can quote reams of the pious Carlyle, but she compares her own way of life to that of Aspasia, most successful of the Athenian courtesans. The Scotsman talks of her soul; he signs another man's name on his own examination paper in order to get money to provide her with a rest-cure in Spain...
...doubt, good Miss Primson meant well, for she has a noble soul...