Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...failure by way of poison. She sees a beautiful nitwit accept a film contract which she herself turns down, get acclaimed by the moviegoing public, and return to do a play on Broadway, sponsored by her Philistine boss. But David Kingsley a sensitive fellow who regrets having sold his soul to the latter potentate, persuades the man to discard his vapid beauty and give Terry Randall (Miss Bennett) an audition. They come around at midnight, drag Terry out of bad, and Mr. Gretzl (the producer), blows cigar smoke in her face. The unhappy young woman breaks down...
...lost generation") he used as motto for The Sun Also Rises, whence it took its wide currency. *Croaked the N. Y. Herald Tribune's Isabel Paterson: ''There is no loftiness of spirit in his books, and a book must have a soul to be great." Max Eastman accused Hemingway of having "... a literary style, you might say, of wearing false hair on the chest. . . ." J. B. Priestley spoke of ". . . Mr. Ernest Hemingway's raucous and swaggering masculinity, which I am beginning to find rather tiresome. It is time some friend spoke sharply to Mr. Hemingway...
...situation--what, as we have said with all these mingled elements the lights of Gotham presented a somewhat unfamiliar picture. We managed to get around a couple of the rotaries and then after a few moments of blind flying found ourselves inexplicably and inextricably in Central Park. A friendly soul had told us that the third right would bring us out but the third right seemed to be mainly sidewalk and the fourth right was distinctly a stone wall...
Orthodox churchmen, custodians of what they believe is the only sure cure for the soul-sickness of many a confused modern, view with jealous alarm the spiritual patent medicines of healers, swamis, yogis, fortunetellers, popular "psychologists." But in Manhattan last week appeared a lecturer on popular psychology who was notable because he, Dr. Albert Garcia de Quevedo, is a good Catholic, working under Catholic auspices and billed as the only U. S. Catholic layman lecturing on "practical psychology...
...badly that it had to be amputated) to expiate a blow he had struck a friend. His consciousness of civic responsibility was so strong that he went from Manhattan to Coatesville, Pa., on the anniversary of a lynching there, to conduct a public prayer meeting and so assuage his soul...