Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might have died from the same cause at any time in the last 20 years. Something froze Dzerzhinsky's soul in his youth- perhaps too early and too long imprisonment-and he became imbued with the prodigious soulless energy of a machine. While imprisoned in Poland and later in Siberia, he begged permission, lest inaction drive him mad, to empty daily all his fellow prisoners' latrines. Like a famished tiger, he thirsted for the revolutionary works of Marx, but (naturally) his gaolers were adamant on that point, though obliging in the matter of latrines...
...victory secure. It was Colonel Lawrence whom Marshal Allenby had fetched by airplane that the Colonel and the Field Marshal might enter Jerusalem together. It was Colonel Lawrence who represented the Pan-Arabs at the Peace Conference. It was he, moody, mystical, perverse, who was driven by his eccentric soul to retire from the Near East, seek solitude at Oxford, and finally assume, incognito, the rank and style of "Private Ross of his Majesty's Tank Corps...
...always interesting. CRAIG'S WIFE-In which a husband very sensibly decides that if he cannot smoke in the parlor he will find a home elsewhere. THE GREAT GOD BROWN-Eugene O'Neill's agonized fancy about the purchase and sale of a man's soul...
...lips in America." For convenience and popularity, it was explained that entrants might display their labial pulchritude by smearing their lips with rouge and pressing them upon slips of paper in whatever patterns seemed most seductive. When these slips began pouring in by the thousand, the Mirror treated its "soul-starved" readers to reproductions of the smears. In smelly lunchrooms, dirty washrooms, ugly workrooms, hot bedrooms, thousands of young females forgot their troubles in the decadent thrill of examining, preening and comparing lips. When the winner was announced -a Manhattan nymph, of course, "a dainty little married woman... Christine League...
...born in Spain and now living in England, long studied and taught at Harvard. He has been called an "immaculate materialist." He accepts universal mechanism as he accepts his friends' names, but finds it capable of such infinite variation, color, beauty, that it satisfies his poet's soul, just as the Catholic Church moves him esthetically without for an instant compelling his belief. He expresses the vestiges of Classicism in the U. S., modernizing Aristotle...