Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...encourage germination of their new-sown crops. Church fathers readily admitted that Lent was in part an adaptation from pagan "natural religion." Then, as now, they also thought it not unfitting to remind Christians that Lenten self-denial is a good spring tonic for body as well as soul...
Most of them do not. Explains an old (Scotsman who guides Lewis as Virgil and St. Bernard guided Dante: "Milton was right. The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words 'Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.' There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery. ... It has a hundred fine names-Achilles' wrath and Coriolanus' grandeur, Revenge and Injured Merit and Self-Respect and Tragic Greatness and Proper Pride...
Eleanor Roosevelt, who has been called about everything else, was called by Artists' Agent Leora Thompson one of the few women whose legs "fully reveal their soul." Said Gamologist Thompson: Eleanor's legs reveal "traveling dynamism"; Stripteuse Margie Hart's-"suppressed dignity"; pallid Cinemactress Gene Tierney's - "exotic desires"; Dancer Vera Zorina's-"dynamic magnetism"; Columnist Elsa Maxwell's fatted calves-"outraged complacency...
...critic Olin Downes, who chided her for overacting "both histrionically and vocally." Says Maggie: "That Olin Downes! When I sing about fire, I want people to see the buildings and hear the screaming, and he says 'go away and don't bother me.' He has no soul, no imagination. He is stone cold, like a piece of mutton...
...deeply hurt when Leo XIII, in an Apostolic Letter to Baltimore's Cardinal Gibbons in 1899, at last felt it necessary to condemn heretical "Americanism." Gist of the alleged errors: "Spiritual direction . . . was less necessary since in an era of liberty, the Holy Ghost would guide the individual soul. . . ." U.S. bishops loudly denied that such heresy had ever tainted U.S. Catholicism...