Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They remember how Mary Adams was afflicted with malignant inferiority as a girl in provincial little Lebanon. Her father was head hawker in the public market, a loud man with a mean soul. Her mother was doting and desperately middle class. Mary was a pretty girl stricken with panic by society's failure to come running to her feet more often than it did. Her nature preened itself and craned for admiration, thus repelling it and thrusting the girl into bitter, pitiful snobbery. She grew to despise Brand, or any one, who thought well of her. Yet so determined...
...above. These funds might be used in "building hospitals, recreation grounds, and helping established child welfare organizations." In other words since "surplus" and "profits" are definable by the corporation making them, and since no dividend rate was set for this corporation's common stock, this corporation has a "soul." It may give its profits to charity rather than declare dividends...
There was Mr. Jollyco, who was the soul of politeness and geniality when feeling pleased but who invariably referred to the bathroom as "my bathroom" when anything, the Ivory Soap for instance, was missing. There was Mrs. Jollyco, a model wife and mother with a most engaging conversational manner, and so tactful that she did not offend Mrs. Folderol of Vanity Fair one bit when she told her that washing Baby Folderol with any soap but Ivory was bound to irritate his tender skin and was, in short, pure folderol. There was old Dr. Verity, who backed...
...clock in the afternoon he went into a deep coma. The oxygen did no good. Kneeling and holding in the Cardinal's clasp a lighted taper was a nursing sister. Brother Hubert of the Community of Morey, kneeling, held the other hand. Both prayed softly for the soul of their superior...
...Every one of our 2,500 Sunday trains is hurrying America toward the Hell of God's wrath. Every Sunday train is hurrying somebody to ruin, some soul to Hell...