Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soul and purpose of the man stood well revealed when he utterly refused to deal or cooperate with the Indian Statutory Commission, chairmanned by Great Britain's leading Liberal barrister Sir John Simon, and now in India, charged with investigating how large a measure of self-determination can be wisely extended by Great Britain's Parliament. Thoroughly suspicious of Sir John and all his works-Pandit Nehru has said: "In this Commission there is nothing but a machine to forge chains upon India. . . . Personally I should prefer forced slavery to being a party to forging the chains...
Interviewed was chief Rabbi Doctor Sonnenschein. He said that, alas, there were poor Jews, that the home for the aged was overcrowded, that $100,000 would bring sunshine (which is what Doctor Sonnenschein's name means) to many an unhappy soul. Perhaps there was a trace of anti-Semitism in the municipal council? But since the council's word was evidently legally final, it seemed last week that no Jew, rich or poor, would enjoy part...
...regrets that troubled the soul of Oscar, however, never, entered into the discussions of a group of men who gathered in a downtown bank in New York and spent the day deliberating. They were realtors, and they talked of leases and rents, and how many stories an office building must rise in order to yield income proportionate to the value of a property in terms of Fifth Avenue frontage. In the end, they nodded in agreement on a real estate dicker which will wipe out the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, a famed Manhattan landmark, a tradition of princesses and kings, Peacock...
...matter of fact Gilbert ("Swankau") Frankau edited Britannia with the assistance of Mr. Price; but apparently his swanky little soul rejoiced in the title of GOVERNING DIRECTOR...
...limpid spring months he spent at an outlaw camp, favorite of the only woman -a girl whose hair had turned white with the War. Babka weaned him body and soul from the starvation of trenches and prison; then reluctantly sent him on, his identity of escaped prisoner well camouflaged by the clothes and identification-tag of dead Bjuscheff, Russian deserter...