Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...directly behind him. Instantly the little man produced a decrepit volume of Shakespeare's works and began to fondle the pages with fanatic tenderness. In his infrequent moments of coherence, Vag could distinguish such things as "Take you me for a sponge, my lord?" and "O, come away! My soul is full of discord and dismay." All during the lecture he nodded and frowned and bowed and articulated to himself. When the instructor read a particularly stirring passage, the little man would shut his book, lean back in his chair, and with eyes closed, would sway from side to side...
...white rabbit out of a silk hat, so the Fine Arts Theatre seems to pull consistently entertaining pictures out of thin air. "Mill on the Floss" is undoubtedly one of the funniest pictures of the year. It is all the funnier because it sets out to be a soul-searing tragedy of Sophocletian dimensions...
...Whiteside, Kaufman & Hart hilariously held the mirror up to ill-nature. Crusty, crotchety, mischiefmaking, selfish, their renowned invalid badgers all comers in epigrammatic Billingsgate. Every combat, to him, is a Blitzkrieg. Now & then, as on Christmas Eve, his gushing soul drips treacle; but the real Whiteside, from his wheelchair throne, commandeers the house, forbids his hosts to use the telephone, tries to smash his secretary's love affair, bewitches the servants, bedevils his nurse. Snaps he to "Miss Bedpan": "My great-aunt Jennifer . . . lived to be 102 and when she was three days dead she looked better than...
...three long years fleet Bob MacLeod was the heart and soul of the Dartmouth offense. His dreaded climax running ability was something that no team could stop worrying about until the final gun had sounded. One slight defensive lapse and this spectacular Indian might be off to the races...
...IshKiriot," as he calls others by their Hebrew names: Rabbi Yeshua ben Joseph (Jesus), Miriam of Migdal (Mary Magdalene), Simon bar Jonah (Peter). It is Author Asch's thesis (as it has been of some Christian scholars) that Judas was so impatient for the salvation of mankind-"My soul is famished for the redemption," he said-that he betrayed Jesus to hurry the inevitable...