Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aimee Sample McPherson, Los Angeles soul saver, denied that she was going to marry Homer Alvan Rodeheaver, archangelic trombonist for Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, but admitted that he had given her a diamond ring...
...attractive young men: they discuss high matters of philosophy. "She cited often the saying of Plato that the true philosophers are the young men of their age. 'Not,' she would add, 'because they do it very well; but because they rush upon ideas with their whole soul. Later one philosophizes for praise, or for apology, or because it is a complicated intellectual game.' " Chrysis recites Greek tragedies, of which she knows many by heart. Occasionally one of the young men is allowed to stay for the night. Many of them are in love with her; none...
...Charles Evans Hughes. It is a lonely job?one of the world's few entirely exalted and lonely life-jobs. By custom the Chief Justice is hedged off from free and easy association with his fellow beings lest they in some inexplicable manner corrupt his integrity, warp his judicial soul. Chief Justice White sought solitude to the point of never accepting a Washington invitation, of avoiding all official functions. For all his surface affability Chief Justice Taft observed much the same caution in his daily contacts. He shunned Society and it was only last year that he relaxed his stand...
...heart and soul of Harvard is the College. The College it was when the Puritan boys entered it in 1636, and the College it will be when the Near East ceases to need relief. Of course Harvard officially is a university, but the undergraduate student body makes up the College, and the undergraduates are the epitomizing part of any school...
...little Colonial clubhouse hiding in a courtyard behind the Teuraine Hotel, he converts fellow members to the Americanisms and poetics of Walt Whitman. With Professor Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland he attends the club's dinners, carrying lighted taper in hand, singing "Wreathe the bowl with flowers of soul," and wearing a bright-hued vest with evening dress. To recognize the decade in which a member was admitted, each Tavern Clubman sports a dinner waistcoat of distinctive color...