Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cathedral of the Incarnation, at Garden City, L. I., draped his coffin with the white lambskin apron of a Master Mason. As the frozen lumps of earth clumped down on his coffin they seemed to boom up a phrase he once cried: "I have almost had my very soul burned out in the trials of life." William Green, mine worker, Odd Fellow, Elk, Baptist, was at once chosen his successor as president...
...Buchman handbook, Soul Surgery, keynotes the slogan, "Woo, Win, Warn." There, personal workers read...
Thomas Alva Edison, New Jersey inventor: "In 1910, just after the death of Philosopher William James, I was asked my views on Immortality. I replied: 'I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul . . . Soul? Soul? What do you mean by soul? . . . The Brain immortal? No, the brain is a piece of meat-mechanism . . . wonderful meat-mechanism,' But the November issue of The Forum will contain another interview with me in which, now aged 79, I say that even evidence that science now possesses tends to favor belief in Immortality; that there is nothing necessarily shocking to practical...
...instead of tennis than a great actor planning to enter on his greatest artistic triumph. All this is somewhat disappointing; and it may be that, in an excess of caution Mr. Barrymore is hiding behind this casualness. Still, it has a natural air; and, although the reader might expect soul-stirring revelations, his Anglo-Saxon temperament is vaguely relieved to find that this artist leave such things to the imagination and keeps his stirrings deep within him. It is too true that "show-business" is a business first, and an art afterwards, even in the published memoirs of a great...
...units; from this division came the use of the chorus as in Greek drama of a later period, and finally the song-and-dance motive was entirely gone from Greek poetry in its decadent stage. The chorus sang of the things which touch the deepest chord in the human soul,--dove, strife, death, and immortality. The natural expression of such thoughts was song and motion...