Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago ... as a preparatory school with 35 students. Since that time it has reached the proportions of a college of agriculture and mechanical arts with an enrollment of about 1,400 students. . . . What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? . . . Colleges should be temples. . . . The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge...
Such Is Life. The iron, generally, has been driven into the soul of young playwrights who label their dramas with such matter-of-fact simplicity. In this case, it is a story of four maiden sisters of the heavily-upholstered convention-corseted '90s. Two of them have secretly wed the same rascal. One is recognized as wife; the other bears a bastard son. This black thread in their life's pattern is accompanied by the incessant nagging of the wizened humpbacked sister. In the spinsters' parlor-desert their scandal festers almost to the end. The dreariness...
...West Indies, Germany, Japan, India, South America, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Nigeria, Liberia, South Africa, to discuss racial needs. Speeches were made, newspapers commented, resolutions were accepted and published. Speeches. Said Dr. Wilhelm Mensching of Petzen, Germany: "The fruits of love as outlined by Apostle Paul grow in the soul of the African." Said M. Dantes Bellegarde of Port-au-Prince, Haiti: "If this experiment of self-government [Haitian] fails, it is a blow to all the Negroes of the world." Said one F. E. Croly, U. S. student: "The fault is that the intelligent Negro does not feel that...
...bless my soul, sir, what did the scoundrel say to me? He said: 'Me no care what you say, Blitishman. Chinaman get back plane plenty quick or whippy Blitish army. How you like that? Chinaman wanty only protect his "interests," as you say in China...
...roar in the Roaring Forties," and too much whiskey, balance her accounts for her. Jerry is not so attractive with a leg cut off. And the lacerations on Gay's lovely little throat are not nearly so costly as the fractures in her reputation, the smear on her soul. She is fairly lucky to find a market for the remains of her "class" in a night club...