Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus finding myself in the full clutch of circumstance, though verified by all human experience, a bitter taunt comes to mind and seems justified. It frets my soul to think that the Yanks, a nation far removed and by no means of the first rank, who with invincible logic found themselves in 1914-1918 too proud to fight, should with homely eloquence in 1927 find themselves too proud to learn to read and write...
Observers recalled that Chang Tsung-chang has the reputation of being China's "basest War Lord," keeps a string of over 100 concubines, and has often put to death every living soul in captured villages. His superior, the great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, at Peking, evidently instructed that Mme. Borodin should be gently treated because of the might of Soviet Russia...
...contemplation of the eternal flow of the stream, the stretch of forest and mountain, all reduce our egotism, soothe our troubles, and shame our wickedness. . . . I am for fish. Fishing is not so much getting fish as it is a state of mind and a lure of the human soul into refreshment. But it is too long between bites; we must have more fish in proportion to the water...
Bruce Barton, lay apostle of the Lord, may be said to have entered upon his ministry about 1912, when he published The Resurrection of a Soul. But not until 1925, when he published The Man Nobody Knows, did his faith show forth really widely before men. The Man, of course, was Jesus?rediscovered, as the title implied, in the image of the ideal U. S. businessman that Mr. Barton himself strives...
...nonsense about a hoyden from Tenth Avenue who wants to be a lady. She makes a hit in a cabaret, appears in society under the patronage of a handsome gentleman friend, distresses her amiable prizefighting boy friend. But the drinking, lovemaking, gambling of the upper crust disgust her tender soul so much- that she returns just in time to cheer her prizefighter on to championship. A luridly punning sub-titier adds to the fun. Thus the Czechoslovakian princess is said to have "married twice but her Czechs were no good...