Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would make 150. This he would do, and did, for the glory of God and the wonder of men. Last week in Cairo, one Nureddon Bey Mustafa, looked long at the grain of white rice with its Koranic minutiae, found it a perfect symbol of food for the starving soul, bought it for $500. Neither scribe nor buyer knew that in England three and a half centuries ago one Peter Balesius (1547-1610) had been even more skilled in micrography, had written within the circle of an English penny the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, the Decalogue, two short...
...manner which he is said to find "exquisite." When the firebrand who seized Fiume strides out upon his lawn, the dreadnaught Puglia, placed there high and dry by the grateful Italian Government, affords him a milieu in which to pace the quarter deck of his extravagant soul. The home of d' Annunzio is a nestling spot for the prodigious and the absurd. That no spiritually played piano has previously been reported there is to be wondered...
Naturally this activity pivoted upon the Masaryk-Benes-initiated Czechoslovak revolutionary movement which they directed from Switzerland during the War. It is customary to regard Masaryk as the soul, Benes as the brain of their great achievement...
...Coolidge has done and said many astonishing things. But seldom has he done or said anything more astonishing than when he proclaims to the world his willingness to rest the salvation of his soul upon the ethics of big business. And seldom has there been a more revealing confession of faith than this naive acknowledgement that whatever is right, and that the President of the United States is content to accept as his own faith and the faith of the American people the spiritual implications of modern industrialism...
...chapel. Even as their contemporaries at Yale, Dartmouth, Amherst, Princeton and elsewhere have protested in these late years of undergraduate self-assertion that religion is a personal matter, so the young ladies on their high hill at Poughkeepsie have stoutly insisted that each should be permitted to save her soul in her own way, and that the community spirit expressed by daily and weekly chapel gatherings could be expressed quite as well by academic convocations for lectures and general discussion. Last winter the undergraduates presented the trustees with resolutions to that effect (TIME, Oct. 19). Last week the resolutions, agreed...