Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began to command space in the newspapers. It was then considered impossible to play good music for audiences at Promenade Concerts; they wanted to hear Goodbye, Dolly, I Must Leave You, or the airy ballads that squat Dan Leno was yodeling in the Empire Theatre. "But God bless my soul," said Henry J. Wood, "if they don't like Wagner, why God bless my soul I'll play him until they do." Soon he went further, began to make the British public interested in Russian music. When people clapped, he made his orchestra rise and bow behind...
...film entitled The Mystery of the Soul was also announced last week. Produced by the Berlin concern UFA, every foot will be planned, scrutinized by Dr. Freud. The subject: popular demonstration of psychoanalysis...
...bath!" (An enormous tub is filled thus almost weekly; a secondhand bookseller empties it, giving 50 francs a bath, verse or prose.) Letters all go into the fire. No, here is one from a madwoman, addressed in blue, crimson, green inks. "She begs me to save my soul, poor crazed thing...
...Bishop of the Knights of Columbus." After thanking the Knights for their presence at Rome, the Pope said: "I am well acquainted with what you do in the United States and Canada and elsewhere when the cause of the Church and humanity is in question. Wherever there is a soul in danger or human suffering to alleviate, you are ready to do your best, cooperating with the common Father materially and morally for the salvation of mankind. I praise you for all this, and I want to confirm to you that I am with you in this excellent cause, with...
...crippled child, woos a pretty school teacher-a society girl with a lost taste for dances and teas-catches the wicked bootleggers in an exhibition of acrobatic agility, comes under a shadow in which he loses his star, and otherwise goes direct to the deepest emotions of an unsophisticated soul...