Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indignation if not consuming wrath was in the voice of the Belgian press as M. Theunis, Ambassador Baron Cartier de Marchienne, Felician Cattier and Emile Francqui departed for the U.S. three weeks ago. "Shylock," "the soul of Shylock" people muttered in the streets of Brussels, and; press set down the opprobrious words in black and white. The contemptuous words were not spoken of any of the departing gentlemen, all honored as able statesmen or financiers in their country sneering epithet was applied to an intangible person, that daddy-long-legs of symbolical figures, Uncle...
...Weimar is mentioned." The Constitution, he added, is "holding a middle ground between Communism in the East and individualism in the West. "We must," said he, "emancipate ourselves from this mad tendency to permit our national life to become Americanized ; we must find our way back to the German soul...
...cylinder like the weight from a grandfather clock, suspended by a silken, tubular thread. Perry claimed that the cylinder contained secret ingredients which caused it to oscillate, gyrate, agitate when in the vicinity of subterraneau oil, even thousands of feet in the earth. He, Perry, was the only living soul that could operate the marvelous machine, which he did by bringing a small container filled with crude oil into contact with the silken thread. The principle that would cause the indication of the presence of oil in the ground, he explained, was the natural one that "like attracts like." Furthermore...
...that he had received "entirely too much publicity" from his services to Mr. McCormick, issued nevertheless some statements. The price of parts, he said, was coming down. When asked what parts he referred to, he made it clear that he meant the parts of that curious taxicab of the soul, the human body. He foresaw the day, he intimated, when parts would be obtainable at standard prices from agencies in most large towns and service stations along the highways. In the minds of his listeners arose the vision of hilarious advertisements offering for rent quaint objects "slightly used but still...
That curious taxicab of the soul...