Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greatest Crusade. Senator Ball called the Christian Mission "the greatest crusade since Jesus sent his twelve disciples out to preach the brotherhood of man," declared its purpose was "to remove the scales of fear and cynicism from the soul of America so that [we] may undertake confidently, with courage and vision, the building of a world order in which justice and reason, and not brute force, prevail...
...body but the soul that really counts and in this respect Butte shines. . . . True, it is somewhat scarred, but those scars have resulted from the evils of a boom industry. . . . There is a quality of warm friendliness in all of the residents in Butte that fills everyone who has ever lived there with a desire to return. Butte is proud of its colorful past, but to be looked upon as still a legend is indeed heaping insult upon injury...
...accomplished toastmaster, cotillon leader, bon vivant who neither drinks nor smokes, first-nighter, balletomane, golfer, bridge player, cat enthusiast, and clubman (Union, Knickerbocker). He once hired Dorothy Parker to write for him on the strength of one line she produced in an advertising agency ("Brevity is the soul of lingerie...
...long silence. They are listening, as some Friends say, "in the silence of all flesh." For central to the Quaker view is the belief that man is a moral ruin, that only in the silent suspension of man's common activities can God "work in and direct the soul" as "by an invasion, a breaking in, a prevailing of the Divine...
Bernard Shaw wrote to Chesterton: "Faith is a curious thing. . . . You will have to go to Confession next Easter; and I find the spectacle-the box, your portly kneeling figure, the poor devil inside wishing you had become a Fire-worshipper instead of coming there to shake his soul with a sense of his ridiculousness and yours-all incredible, monstrous, comic...