Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...audiences' hearts working emotionally with a few hymns and one of his famed talks ("From Gypsy Tent to-Pulpit" or "Three Years with the Boys in France"); then he asks all who "intelligently feel the need of Jesus, and mean to give themselves to Him, body, soul and spirit," to rise in prayer. He does not make them trample moldy sawdust before the public gaze. His converts are led into the "inquiry room" where pastors and personal workers act as nurses after a surgical operation, where they are told to rejoice and to go to work winning new souls...
...penny-pinching hypocrites are defending the system that exploits millions and sucks the lifeblood out of the workers around the world, in a day when snobs and aristocrats hold up the iron wall of class and caste, I have dared to stand up and tell the truth concerning these soul-blasting tyrannies...
...Berkeley on God and the Soul," Mr. Miller, Emerson D, Philosophy...
...revenge for 30 copies of La Vie Parisienne and nine of Le Sourire seized from my mother and torn up by the Abbé Bethlehem, I smashed a few of those idolatrous images sold by the accomplices of priesthood. They seem to me fully as poisonous to the soul as any magazine my mother ever sold. My father was an agnostic. I am an atheist. I defy the Abbé Bethlehem - coward, despoiler of honest women, IDOLATER...
Honeymooning is a rowdyish jamboree, in which only the naive may find a modicum of unsophisticated amusement. The bridegroom plays dead on his wedding night, while the bride repents the cruelty that supposedly made him commit suicide and the in-laws communicate through spiritualistic medium with his table-rapping soul. Every now and then, he skips out of the coffin to pound someone on the head, then jumps back in again. No one catches him. Antics drive the farce out of the ridiculous into the absurd. The odd things about it are: 1) It was written by Hatcher Hughes...