Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...EVERY SOUL Is A CIRCUS-Vachel Lind-say-Macmillan ($2.75). "Now in the fiftieth year of my age comes my revolt. I come roaring forth with a book which is the opposite of little Rollo and little Lucy." Perhaps Poet Lindsay never said quite the same thing before, but the blatant tone of voice is unmistakably his. He is a hell-raiser whose hair is never brushed; like his latest book, he is "aggressive, however sinful and full of pride." Two good poems appear-one an old-style Lindsay chantey, "The Virginians Are Coming Again," and "Twenty Years...
...confidence and good will." Speakers were President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, Rabbi Harry Levi of Boston's Temple Israel, Rev. Father Michael J. Ahern, S. J., of Weston College. Among conclusions reached by the seminar were: "That . . . sincere differences are matters of conscience between the individual soul and its creator, and, therefore, are entitled to universal respect. "That such agreement to disagree as to the fundamentals of their respective faiths in no way interferes with their active cooperation in all undertakings making for the welfare of the community...
...week at a meeting of the National Labor Club, Scot MacDonald told how he had been "struck by President Hoover's quiet forcefulness. . . . His powerful way of furthering an argument made me almost smile in his face and exclaim to him out of the happiness of my soul: 'Oh, you dear old Quaker...
...Minnie ("Ma") Kennedy, mother of Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles soul-saver, successfully defended a $50,000 suit brought against her by Rev. Harry H. Clark, Seattle divine, for breach of promise, in Seattle. Her plea for nonsuit granted, she was surrounded by crowds of spectators who congratulated her, smacked her hands...
Marjorie de Loosey Oelrichs. Mr. Broun admits he has little sympathy for debutantes who get ghosts to help them confess their insincere boredom. He writes: "Surely in a proper finishing school there must be some course on 'How to bare your soul at fifty cents a word...