Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe in military defeat, believed that Allied cleverness in propaganda, their own clumsiness in it, was largely responsible. On the subject both Generals Ludendorff and Hindenburg were almost pathological. Manifestoed Hindenburg: "The enemy . . . seeks to poison our spirit. . . . His airmen throw down leaflets which are intended to kill the soul...
...having said: ''All my life I have wanted to be a great painter in oils. I am tired of politics, and as soon as I have carried out my program for Germany I shall take up my painting. I feel that I have it in my soul to become one of the great artists of the age and that future historians will remember me, not for what I have done for Germany...
...Cabinet met again this week, searched its soul, announced another decision: it would resign in a body. Man chosen by Emperor Hirohito to be successor to Premier Hiranuma was no fire-eater, no ambitious young officer, no strong man-but conservative Nobuyuki Abe. An old hobbyhorse of a retired general, he has had no spectacular fighting and political experience, but plenty of experience in behind-the-scenes talking. He was briefly Acting War Minister in 1928, was one of the seven generals who retired after the 1936 uprising of the Army's jingoists. His probable policy: a strong line...
...occasion, Playwright Oboler had constructed This Lonely Heart, a doloroso radio fluoroscoping of the troubled soul of Tschaikowsky's ever-loving patroness, Mme von Meek (Nazimova...
Since 1878 the Salvation Army has been practicing street-corner soul-saving. On the theory of its founder, hot-eyed, white-bearded General William Booth, that you cannot save a man's soul when his feet are cold and his stomach empty, it adds soup and soap to the salvation. Thanks also to Founder Booth, the Army's General long occupied the most autocratic throne of charity on earth, armed with a set of rules which gave him dictatorial powers, even to naming his successor. Son Bramwell was so named when General William Booth died...