Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protests against the bribery and corruption of officials in the various departments of American administrative government; if it involves organized protests against the levities and discrimination of American courts, stick-to-the-finish campaigns against the debasing and enervating influences of commercial amusements as they are controlled by greedy, soul-less men, may God give us the courage and insistence to declare with undeniable finality, 'BACK TO LUTHER...
...This good lady, on her appearance, made me feel wholly at ease. She was a charming and gracious soul; and told me just what the Sisters of the Blessed Harmony had in mind. 'Harmonians,' she explained, 'are of all denominations. No; not just Anglicans, though we have some of them. ... I myself am a Universalist, which, you see, keeps the peace in the community between the Presbyterian sisters from Massachusetts, the Congregationalists from Connecticut, and the Baptists from Rhode Island. But we do agree on the tea; and that means so much to poor travelers...
...theologians argue (in terms which to them are as exact as mathematics) that because fleshly dissolution could not come to Christ's Mother, she died of love. The Assumption into Heaven is supposed to have taken place from three to 40 days later. Theologians hold that her body & soul were reunited, her Jewish burial garments cast off and herself taken into Heaven, unlike Jesus Christ "who went up thither by His own power." By an apocryphal tradition, the Apostles were miraculously assembled by God to see Mary's empty tomb. But no record of such an event...
...characters gradually, naturally, by seeing and hearing them in action. Author Robert Smythe Hichens, 68, who wrote his first novel, The Coastguard's Secret, in 1881 and his most popular one, The Garden of Allah, in 1905, likes to lay his puppets in a row, dissect them body & soul in advance. In The Paradine Case he takes most of 332 prolix pages for this job. But the reader who gets through these may feel repaid by some 200 pages about the trial itself, mostly swift, naked, exciting questions & answers...
...write dialog for the story. His breathtaking puns, doubtless conceived in the hope of making Foster seem a wit rather than an addlepate, are the best strokes in the portrait. When Foster wakes up with a hangover and finds a girl in his apartment, he says: "Women are all soul and men are all heels." Another one comes when he has replaced pajamas with a suit: "The leper has changed his spats...