Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such was the fine distinction that emerged last week from a perplexed and not unamusing situation in Madison, Wis. The soul-stirring subject of "companionate marriages" had been filling periodicals of the high-minded kind for which President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin writes articles. Eager intellects of the Wisconsin Student Forum heard that the wife of famed Philosopher Bertrand Russell of England was coming to the U. S. to lecture in connection with the publication of her "fearless," "astounding" and rather trite book, The Right to Be Happy. The Student Forum invited Mrs. Russell to lecture...
...atheism is an entirely logical postulate. Usually, however, an atheist's faith being a negative one, he is less likely, when its novelty has worn off, than a propagandist for God, to preach it on highway and byway. He has not the exclusively Christian satisfaction of saving a soul. When he takes the offensive, he is in the position of a salesman selling precisely nothing at all. Nonetheless, atheists perhaps feel that their offspring are contaminated by biblical training in public schools, that in other respects they are at a disadvantage in the U. S. community. In the back...
...live at American Venice is to quaff the very Wine of Life. ... A turquoise lagoon under an aquamarine sky ! Lazy gondolas ! Beautiful Italian gardens! . . . And, ever present, the waters of the Great South Bay lapping lazily all the day upon a beach as white and fine as the soul of a little child "Thus, the log cabin of the modern pioneer...
...operation in connection with the various publications of the University, I wish to add my tribute to your own very discriminating and happy observations of her career at Harvard. The humor, no less than the substance, of your praise of her accuracy and dependability would have gratified her Irish soul. When the University Gazette was started we had a solemn understanding that it was to contain no mistakes, whether of fact or of typography: the Gazette could do no wrong. No one could have come nearer to this impossible ideal than Miss Mullen, and I am glad to infer from...
...India and Los Angeles, Calif., a man who looks like a plump woman. She was quoted in copy in Manhattan theatre programs as saying: "YOGODA gives Health, Strength, Power to Accomplish, Peace and Poise." Among other things, YOGODA claims to teach people "to Recharge their body, mind and soul Batteries from Inner Cosmic Energy ... to meditate, to know Divine truths." Last week Swami Yogananda was ordered by the police to leave Miami, Fla., where he had been extending his practices...