Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whereupon I took occasion to tell him of the noise and that I could not sleep in the Tower this morning but, bless my soul, he was not aware that this be the Vagabond's home these twelve years past. Whereupon he told me he had not been in the Tower since he himself was a student here; whereupon I, very proud, did invite him to visit it again. And he says: "Let's go now." He being a good man I could not refuse...
...harmonizing combinations are in demand. No red-headed lad wearing pink shirts and purple ties with brown suits! A well-matched shirt, tie, and handkerchief seldom go unappreciated. On the other hand, black shirts are apt to be frowned on and no sympathy whatsoever is reserved for the unenlightened soul who appears in a gray and brown combination. "Revolting!" shudders the artistic Wellesley critic. "How can anyone stand a brown jacket with gray trousers!" "Ploppy and unimaginative." Thumbs-down is the high sign on derbies and corduroy pants...
Printer's ink in his soul "Manny" Wolfe drifted west where be enrolled in the University of California (Berkelrey)...english scholar and backstage workers for college plays . . . who left Chaucer after graduation in '27 for such things as traveling with Isadora Duncan dancers... beginning as "reader" at Warner Brothers . . . making symphonies of books and magazine stories . . . he went up the tinselled ladder until he achieved his present position . . . that of assigning work to Paramount writers, Reading scripts, and looking for writing talent... and writning nothing himself, expect notes for the writers...
...breakfast and thence, very serious, to examination which I did write; and, I did feel, very well; but was much disturbed by man at back of me who did grunt and puff and say strong things most violently. "Poor soul," thought I to myself, "the widow hath failed him again." But I to finish...
...carry my adornments on my soul...