Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike was "all a sham, as superb a take-in as ever was got up to guzzle the gullible." The rival Californian had no sense of smell, either. For seven weeks, the Californian and the Star ignored the big news. Then they had to shut up shop. Every gullible soul in town had gone tearing off to the gold fields, leaving nobody to buy a paper...
...U.S.A. was hailed by the fellow-traveling League of American Writers in 1937, Dos Passes lost his appeal for Communists when he attacked "the intricate and bloody machinery of Kremlin policy." He began a new series of novels that were to be as full of the liberal's soul-searching doubts as U.S.A. had been of the radical's passionate certainties...
Four years later, in Number One, Dos Passos picked up the story of Glenn's brother, Tyler, who lost his soul through power-hungry cynicism. After working as political handyman for a hillbilly demagogue, Tyler found himself as defeated in America as Glenn had been in Spain...
...insisted, underlining the word "must" 15 times. Lawrence suggested that in addition to a male "Dictator" the new state have a female "Dictatrix" too, in fairness to the female population. The ultimate aim, he continued with passionate wooliness, was "a perfect government" dedicated to "the highest good of the soul, of the individual, the fulfillment in the Infinite, in the Absolute...
Moore once wanted to be a portrait painter, but not any more. Says he: "I may have a tiny soul, but window display is soul-satisfying...