Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...start of a competition," said Nichols, "he knowingly and of his own free will sells his body and soul into bondage. From the first day, the shades of the prison house on 14 Plympton Street infold him, and for the remainder of his candidacy, he is seen no more by his roommates, save in the early morning hours, when he crashes out to record his midnight inspirations in the scoop book, and late at night when he staggers back with dishevelled half and ink stained fingers after the last sheet of copy has dropped into the insatiable basket. During...
...thick as to shroud details; these are handled gently but with such calm precision that close scrutiny will reveal no blurred edges. Fastrade von de Warthe walks in the great park, brooding, but her figure is seen clearly through the trees. Dietz von Egloff, with unrest in his soul, rides his black stallion over the estates when the countryside is abed, but the effect is not supernatural. The beast's hoofs ring sharply, the rider's voice is strong and clear...
...still feel some continuity with the South of Washington, Jefferson and Lee will doubtless now begin to see the light. The rebel yell will be given for the prophet of Baltimore, who is so kind as to lead the backward Confederacy out of its heathen darkness. That great soul, however, should be careful not to carry the reform too far. When he has destroyed the prejudices of the South, and replaced every copy of Thomas Nelson Page and Joel Chandler Harris with a copy of Prejudices, by H. L. Mencken, where will he find victims for his purifying sword? With...
...short of technical efficiency the while it achieves a glorious fullness of unacademic atmosphere, characterization and emotional conflict. In the play, all the tent-show folk-hula dancer, snake-charmer, clown, odd-job men - accept with varying humors their haphazard, futile nom-adism-all except the barker, "Nifty" Miller, soul and essence of the entire raucous flimflam. He, chained like the others to the aimless tent life, holds fast to the idea that his only son will one day be a wealthy, respectable lawyer in a stable community. But the ballyhoo beckons to the boy, also. He joins the circus...
...second act you will hardly be able to wait until you reach the lobby to give your own special version of it. And when you go home (the play has threoacts), the left hind wheel of the trolley, which will be flat, will rhythmically impress that tune on your soul, if you have one, for ever and ever...