Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emeritus, and by Fred Norris Robinson '91, Professor of English. These records are now on sale, and include readings from chapters six and seven at the "Book of Revelation," by Professor Copeland, and part of Chaucer's. The denner's Tale" and "The Debate of the Body and the Soul" by Professor Robinson...
Hellfire raged at New York's Metropolitan Opera House one afternoon last week as a preacher named Wrestling Bradford wrestled with his lustful soul and lost. From Quincy, Mass. in Puritan times Librettist Richard Leroy Stokes and Composer Howard Hanson had borrowed him for the chief character in their opera, Merry Mount...
...like Miss America in an Atlantic City parade. Swedish Goeta Ljungberg did as well as she could by a rôle for which she was badly miscast. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett as Wrestling came nearest to saving the performance. He struggled bravely to make the audience sympathize with the soul-wracked bigot. He sang richly, made words intelligible. Sample from the dream scene...
...niches of the wall--the sitting room of the Van Bret mansion of Fifth Avenue in 1910; in this atmosphere, and as an integral part of it, appears Victoria Van Bret; guardian of the Van Bret millions, tyrant of the Van Bret household. Around the commanding presence and warped soul of this queenly spinster revolves a tense drama of hate and fear, swelling in an unvarying crescendo of emotional strain to a brilliant climax in the last scene. "Double Door" is not a great play, but it is one of the most effective utilizations of a single atmosphere to achieve...
...Roosevelt. It was a peculiarly underhanded trick, and is in line with the tactics used by men who, except for the leniency of the law, would be classed as common criminals; especially despicable was their use of Lindbergh, and it is by now apparent that that noble soul was either dishonest and hypocritical in his protestations or extremely stupid...