Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...here evidently was a subject upon which they could all speak with feeling. "I wouldn't mind it if the old fool would just put down the day's lectures and have done, but he seems to feel it incumbent upon him to unburden the secrets of his soul and his subconscious mind." "Yes," the first member was taking up the thread of the yarn, "and by the time he's written half a column he is so wound up in himself that he forgets where the lecture is or who is talking...
...calamity or salvation; everything is exaggerated to a panacea or a menace, so much so that I could not tell, reading the advertising, which was believed the greater peril to the republic: Russian communism or sore gums. In short, the Americans are essentially unbusinesslike, artists and imaginers in soul. So much the better for them, I like them for it; but it would never do to tell them...
...Society, looked waggish as he talked in ancient puns on "reality." In reality he was deadly serious. Said he: "Reality is the most alluring of all courtesans, for she makes herself what you would have her at the moment. But she is no rock on which to anchor your soul, for her substance is of the stuff of shadow; she has no existence outside your own dreams and is often no more than the reflection of your own thoughts shining upon the face of nature. The materialist will tell me that . . . he sees me standing here, a three-dimensional being...
...Vagabond has been wondering; a peculiarly collegiate occupation. His thoughts have been tinged with the melancholy of the times and the sadness of youth faced with an uncertain future. There has been mingled in his soul a great desire to probe to the foundations and an equally strong fear and shrinking from exposing his inner workings to the chill light of analysis. But like the thief returning to the scene of his crime, the Vagabond returns again and again to his morbid pastime...
...Mary risen in the hearts of the faithful. The angelus sounds, the Queen of Heaven shines in every church, the Pope pontificates her praise. The poor man can feel as did the poor man who willed his soul to "his mooste blessed moder, Saint Mary Virgyn, Quene of Heven Lady of the Worlde and Emporesse of Helle." The great man, too, can cry, with the great Vincent de Beauvais: "O Lady, Lady, if thou fail thy servants, who will succor them...