Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take a rap at "old school theologians" whom he blamed for claiming that man's character was produced by divine inspiration. Bright eyes flashing earnestly behind his spectacles, he declared: "It was the outgrowth of man's own social experience. It sprang out of his own soul, and no outworn theological doctrine of inspiration, no conception of a spotlight of Divine Providence shining exclusively on Palestine, shall despoil man of this crowning glory of his life on earth, the discovery of Character...
...Devens. In 1922 he published The Enormous Room, a novel of his experiences in a French War prison, considered by most critics one of the few important War books. He followed it in 1923 with Tulips & Chimneys, a book of poems which almost anyone could understand. Then began his soul-searching struggles with punctuation and capital letters, resulting in such volumes as XLI Poems, Is 5, & and the recently published W (Viva). He became a regular contributor to the defunct, arty Dial, in 1925 won the $2,000 Dial award for his poetry published in that magazine...
Died. Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, 52, famed poet (A Handy Guide for Beggars, The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems, Rhymes to be Traded for Bread, Every Soul is a Circus); of heart disease; in Springfield, Ill. Born into a pioneer Springfield family (he was later to become preoccupied with local history, with Springfield's Abraham Lincoln), he studied for the ministry at Hiram College (Ohio) then at the Chicago Art Institute and the New York School of Art. From 1905 to 1910 he did Y. M. C. A. work, lectured for the Anti-Saloon League. Rugged, unkempt, Poet Lindsay liked...
...young man who shot his invalid mother in France (TIME. Nov. 18, 1929), Fru Bang poisoned her invalid mother for mercy to her body. But unlike the young man, to whom God was "only a religious belief," she was concerned with the salvation of her mother's soul. The baroness' ailment, the two women believed, was incurable. Her suffering, they perceived, was unbearable...
Clark Gable has now been leading man to each of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's three leading stars. In A Free Soul he delivered a punch to the chin of Cinemactress Shearer; in Susan Lenox he managed to control an impulse to do likewise to Greta Garbo. In this picture, his second with...