Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...allegory and innuendo actually was "frank and familiar." But Englishmen who feel and talk otherwise took comfort from the fact that, though loud, Mr. Kipling is not laureate. In his heyday he was most useful, hymning England's dominion over palm and pine, glossing British exploitation by soul-stirring references to the White Man's Burden, making Empire-Building a very real, brutal, glorious thing for schoolboys to dream about. As late as last spring, during the coal strike, his first cousin, Premier Stanley Baldwin,* thought it worth while to rehearse softie of the oldtime Kipling duty-booming...
...take rather a pride in thinking so and saying so. The incipient candidate is deluded with no fond fairy tales, he is not told that it really isn't so hard after all when you actually get into it. He is warned that he is selling his body and soul into an eleven weeks' bondage; yet he comes out just the same and is idiot enough to tell his roommates, at the rare times when he sees them, that he likes...
...well to take four minutes to do what you can accomplish in three. It is not well to take four years to do what you can accomplish in three. It is well to learn to work intensely. You will hear a good dead of advice about letting your soul grow, and breathing in without effort the atmosphere of a learned society or place of learning. Well, you cannot help breathing, and you cannot help growing, these processes will take care of themselves. The question for you from day to day is how to learn to work to advantage, and college...
...Spokesman Coolidge. By this ingenious system, he can educate the citizenry through the press, explain the Administration policies, and never be committed to anything. President Coolidge is purported to be a silent man; but Spokesman Coolidge (with the aid of plentiful padding by newspaper correspondents) has become a garrulous soul. In fact, press despatches concerning him and his views have totalled 1,209,739 words in 62 days of his vacation...
...Soul-weary with bricklaying, a swart, muscle-knotted Italian sought rest, detachment, beauty at the Hospice of St. Bernard, perched on a sheer crag above the green loveliness of Swiss Lugano...