Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Instrument, National Radiator, A. B. Dick among his clients. An apostle of functionalism in design, Mr. Teague abhors in manner as well as theory esoteric aspects of art. Explained he last week: "The industrial designer . . . does not pluck his designs out of the air, or out of his own soul. His designs are always latent in the things he deals with. . . . He asks himself, what is this thing for? What is it supposed to do? What is it made of? How is it made? . . . If he is a good designer a form will emerge which is a composite answer...
...woman who had been an African missionary sang "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" in a Swahili dialect. The three departing missionaries made speeches. Brother Moseman caused a little ripple of pious laughter when he said: "Wouldn't it be wonderful if the Lord called upon you all not to leave this ship and to come with us!" The Mennonites shook hands and kissed all around. Singing "God Be With You Till We Meet Again," they marched off the Deutschland. Two hours later the three missionaries were sailing off to preach God's word to black...
Fees. "The really big man in medicine has not gained distinction from high fees. Our really successful men have been small fee men. It is the little soul whose creed is greed who really charges the limit, no matter how seriously it may distress his patient."-Dr. Nathan Bristol Van Etten, vice speaker of the House of Delegates...
...mystic sense of sin, no dark preoccupation with the soul, no confessions of failure appear in Dr. Mott's books and speeches. A resolutely practical churchman, he is solid to the point of saying: "Always plan your leisure." While at Cornell, Student Mott wrote out advice to himself which he has since followed: "No worry, no excessive indulgence of the emotions, no doing two hours' work in one hour's time. . . . Have only a few intimates and those the best-for no man rises above the moral level of his intimates. Don't neglect the society...
...Finger is gray-haired, and a bit wrinkled, and a good deal be-paunched; one would think him old enough to have learned not to take himself seriously. But, alas, he seems to feel in his way-down-deepmost soul that he has a personality, and likewise--or therefore--a message for humanity. That personality is composed of seven children, a penchant for beefsteak and good liquor, and the capacity to take pleasure in reading. One regrets, when reading "After the Great Companions," that he chose to discourse on literature and progeny rather than on food and drink...