Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When it comes to a showdown and a persistent woman declares in so many words, "marry me or go back to gaol for murder," he stoically awaits her vengeance and marches off with the detective, scornful of a freedom that might have been bought at the expense of his soul. Projecting such mental conflicts is a difficult matter. Muni Wisen-frend does it brilliantly. Last year he played his first English-speaking role as an old man in We Americans. He nearly always plays old men, though he himself is only 26. The Yiddish Theatre will probably have...
...saying; "In the noble part you played you derived your inspiration not only from your sense of patriotism but from your feeling of honor . . . neither you nor we ourselves will allow that part to be travested." General Pershing said: "An army grows to have a personality, a soul, just like anything else, and fortunately the soul of the A. E. F. has passed into the Legion...
...Next day the Mayor arrived, only half an hour late, at the Unknown Solider's Tomb. "I should have preferred," he told General Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris, "to come to Paris incognito to decipher the soul of the city." "You incognito! Impossible!" said General Gouraud...
...cetera and ad absurdum. No intelligent employer will ask for such information and the sole purpose accomplished by the Bureau in requiring it is to make the sensitive applicant more sensitive and the independent applicant more determined to keep to himself what concerns only himself. The sensitive soul will fill out the blank, depart, and never more return. The independent student will sneer and get a job for himself. In both cases the Bureau fails of its function...
...that is because you can't see into the artist's soul," rhapsodized the esthete. "It may even be a genuine Gauguin...