Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cafe Neant ("Nothingness"), Montmartre, Paris, a soul-sick traveler of life's rugged highway reclined beside a black coffin, gulped beer from a human skull. Amid their falsetto shrieks and groans, other travelers, pleasure-spent, raised skull-mugs to their fleshy lips, thwacked the coffin-lid, toyed with human bones?the femur, the tibia, the humerus. Waiters in the greasy black of undertakers made long faces, scurried about the skeleton hall, doing waiters' work. Maudlin antiquaries dilated upon the history of the ghoul-crooked relics...
...soul-sick one called for his bill. It was exorbitant. He seized a femur from the wall. With one blow he smote the waiter senseless to the floor; with another he felled a fellow-drinker who had rushed to the waiter's defense...
...when they had removed the two victims and others, battered and bruised by many a thump, they could not find the soul-sick hacker. The deep night and still night had swallowed...
...Nahum Sokolov been a man of greater soul-breadth, he might have restored peace and been elected President. For he is a most distinguished man in whom his race takes pride. Born in Wishograd, Russian Poland, he was an intellectual prodigy at ten. He has been a journalistic prodigy ever since, is the most prolific Jewish writer of this generation. Histories, primers, geographies, magazine articles-there is nothing he has not written. But he was not the man to quench the fire in Jabotinsky's eyes. He was not the man to wean from Weizmann the financial support...
Last week the four distinguished Belgians announced that they were ready to sail for home Said Le Soir: "Those who attributed the soul of Shylock to our American friends were bad prophets...