Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief effect of the Federation to date has been to win Milwaukee's Socialists a kiss of death from their city's tiny, impotent Communist Party. Mayor Hoan, who hates revolution and dictators with all his Midwestern soul, has vehemently disclaimed the Red endorsement. But William Randolph Hearst's Milwaukee Wisconsin News was screaming last week: "A MAJORITY OF MILWAUKEE WOMEN DO NOT INTEND TO LONGER' TOLERATE A COMMUNIST-ENDORSED CITY ADMINISTRATION! . . . COMMUNISTS WHO OPENLY DEMAND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FAMILY, THE HOME AND THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION...
Thus the beauty of Orator Hitler's daily and twice-daily speeches to German voters last week was that he said almost everything backwards as well as forwards in alternate moods similar to Wagnerian music and having a similar appeal to the German soul. Intellectual tests of consistency the cheering throngs did not apply; they simply revelled. The Great Orator filled them fuller & fuller to bursting with his simple themes: GERMANY, BLOOD & SOIL, HONOR...
...happy truth that all genius lives forever in the sentiments and ideas it inspires? And was not Hypatia a genius? Was she not beautiful? And modest? And intelligent? And was she not done to death in oyster shells? Holy fishes, is this not enough for immortality? Bless my soul, I should like to teach those girls a happy thing...
Late that afternoon Dr. Ruxton sent not for his usual charwoman but for a Mrs. Hampshire, a humble soul who was working off a debt to the doctor and might keep her mouth shut. She found, as she afterwards testified, the house a shambles, with straw littered in all the rooms and on the stairs, carpets spread out in the rain in the back yard, and the bath tub stained a curious yellow most difficult to scrub clean. After she had done her work, Mrs. Hampshire had pressed upon her by her Oriental creditor a blue serge suit with bloodstains...
...communism, constitutions, free love and growing babies--however interesting--will never change ideas petrified with political emotion. Some people can be convinced only in terms of numbers and majorities; our representatives, it seems to me, are of that unfortunate sort. If the bill is repealed; which, bless my soul, I doubt, it will not be because of ideals, appeal to reason or even to common sense but because the committee is made to fear a majority is against it. This be sorry business and as a merry Vagabond it makes me feel dirty even to talk about...