Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been reading about the Byrd Expedition and the naming of different mountain peaks after great men; why not name a mountain, a bay or an inlet after the great dog Chinook. He did a great thing in a dog's way. Chinook was brave until the last, in soul and action, even to die alone...
...will puzzled Deans knot their brows over the baffling question of just how religious Mr. So-and-so may be; a momentary reference to the files of the records office will be sufficient to establish beyond a reasonable doubt just the intensity of godly devotion which exists in the soul of any undergraduate. And conversely sinister addiction to ways of sin may be easily brought to light before things have gone too far for proper treatment...
Round 14. Mr. Rockefeller Sr., aroused, in Ormond Beach, Fla., issued his first formal public statement in ten years. In the diplomatic third person, he pronounced false any reports that he was not heart and soul with his son. "It has been an unpleasant duty for him [the son], but one which in all good conscience he could not shirk," said Father Rockefeller...
Great Russian writers are Gogol, Tolstoy, Turgeniev, Dostoievsky-products all of the first days when Russia dared declare herself artistically, when French frippery first seemed foolish and the longings of the Slavic soul important. Great Russian composers are Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Moussorgsky. They too with Glinka. Balakirev and Cui were pioneers in the school of realism. Yet compared with the less Russian Tchaikovsky their fame has spread so slowly that even today outside Russia Moussorgsky is known for his Boris Godounov alone and that in the refined version of Rimsky-Korsakov made popular by Basso Feodor Chaliapin...
...regular daily schedule that has kept him alive to the age of 89½ years. He made no public statement on his son's battle with Col. Stewart, although his routine was likely to suffer interruption. For there was not a shadow of a doubt that he was heart and soul for the son, upon whom rests all affairs of Rockefeller fortune and philanthropy, and who sinks to his knees every night to ask God that he may be more like his father...