Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Playing basketball in any form at any time is hot work, but basketball a la Fesler in springtime in the stuffy gymnasium is a task to try any man's soul. Despite the intimidating aspects of the sport, 22 brave basketeers turned up to do or die, six of them being lettermen. Only two of the returning lettermen did not appear, Graham Spring, who subbed for Long Bill Gray at the pivot post all winter, and Ray Lavietes, small, quick utility man, who is now playing on the Adams House nine...
...York, like Boston, has taken thought for its soul, Evidently believing with Carlyle that the social hierarchy is based on clothes, the Assembly last week declared that "to expose the person or the private parts thereof" in the presence of two or more persons of the opposite sex who are similarly unclothed shall be a misdemeanor." The proponents of the bill carefully explain that it does not prohibit nudity in the theater, since audiences are decently attired. Perhaps the law was suggested by Actors' Equity as protection from non-professional competition...
...ruling coincided with dozens of other Federal judicial opinions that the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution gives NRA no power to enforce locally its labor and wage provisions. If the Supreme Court sustains the Circuit Court on this point NRA will have won its body but lost its soul...
...That's your masterpiece, Harrington," said a voice behind her. "Yes," came the satisfied answer. "But the anguish it cost me. I tell you the creation of a good work drains your soul . . . that terrible straining to convey a flash you've had of something . . . something...
...every fascinated soul in the courtroom listened. Dr. Arnold told what a thoroughgoing medical expert he was: "I went to my barber and had my neck shaved. Then to raise my blood pressure to a high level I ate a large meal, drank many cups of coffee, and smoked several cigarets...