Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When witchcraft was considered a menace to the body and soul of man, persons, ordinarily kind hearted, burned "witches" at the stake. We don't burn them now-not because we are more tolerant, but because witchcraft has lost its importance. Still, some of us burn Negroes because of alleged menace to the chastity of our women...
...activity of the House of Commons, if I may adapt and adopt an ancient phrase, 'is the activity of the soul and the way of virtue or not without virtue, and that, too, in a full sense.' I think the decision of Lord Denman, then Lord Chief Justice, in a case many years ago, is sufficient for the present purpose. Lord Denman said...
...many people so frequently for so long as it has in the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Grounded in the beliefs of the 19th Century, Presbyterian Fundamentalism continued to exist long after many a good religionist decided he could yield a little to science without harming his soul. But sometime after 1920 Presbyterian Fundamentalists suddenly awoke to what they called the Menace of Modernism in their midst. Their church, they vowed, should forth with be purged of those who did not believe as they did. In the pulpit of Manhattan's First Presbyterian Church was preaching Baptist...
...Harvard lacks a soul, that University Hall is merely another manifestation of the bureaucratic trend in American institutions, harsh and unfeeling, meting out judgment to wrongdoers. For with Christmas in the air, even the patriarch of Deans has fallen prey to the good will of the holiday season. As his present to upperclassmen, Dean Hanford has spread the glad tidings that no attendance will be taken Saturday in courses other than those regularly open to Freshmen...
...Lost Lady"--Barbarn Stanwyck and Frank Morgan make a compact based on what they term "honesty" after he ha retrieved her lost soul. Then love comes unexpectedly and almost conquers. If you like Miss Stanwyck posturing in a variety of costumes before a variety of rich hangings and motor cars, there you are. But she remains legally chaste--likewise Miss Crawford,--which is somewhat of a disappointment...