Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lived a man who took up the instinctive desire for life after death and made it part of his religious gospel. Through his teachings and circumstances this man, whose name was Jesus Christ, passed on to gentile time two ideas of eternal life, the Resurrection and Immortality of the Soul. Today among laymen the former is an obsolete contention; the latter is still held, but with the rise of Evolution it has assumed different clothes...
Mathilde von Freytag-Loringhoven, who taught Kurwenal, is a motherly woman who looks something like Napoleon, with wisps of hair on her broad forehead, squinting eyes, a huge nose. She has trained many a dog, written many an article on the soul life of animals. Boldly she called scholars to "expose" her work, boasting that Kurwenal would perform when she was out of sight and earshot. Müller, Wulf, Plate and others went to her Weimar home to scoff, stayed to be yapped...
Last night big business, that hungry monster without a soul, stalked his prey in the house of the Harvard Chapter of Delta Upsilon, in Bronson Howard's "The Henrietta...
...that very evening, the Vagabond, a forgetful soul at best, leaped into the saddle of his single-control Ford and, weaving in and out and speeding and cutting off trucks all the way, whizzed his way to Wellesley. There he escorted for the evening a sullen creature who chewed no gum and had never heard of dual control...
...artistic bent and his fantastic taste in furnishing his country house, Clandeboye, which included everything from cannons to totem poles. These contradictions he treats with disarming irony, wit, charm of style. In his typically English dialect of delicate understatement Nephew Nicolson limns Lord Dufferin's "generosity of soul," his touching love for his mother (for whom he built an elaborate shrine which he called Helen's Tower), his extraordinary charm, his genius for winning colonies without battles. He gives, in short, a strong suggestion that his childhood opinion of his uncle has not changed very much after...